Greetings Family, This is an invitation to our next event titled Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice featuring scholar Keith Gilyard and MaryLouise Patterson. This event is part of a series of events titled Radical Black Women, which is a collaboration between the Claudia Jones School for Political Education, Black Women Radicals and the Paul Robeson House & Museum that will pay homage to radical Black women throughout history. When: Wednesday, July 14 at 6:30pm Eastern Time RSVP HERE This event will feature: MaryLouise Patterson is a retired pediatrician in clinical practice in New York City. Born in Chicago to two Communist Party USA leaders, Louise and William Patterson, she grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her medical degree from Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, USSR and a Master's of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is the first African-American woman to graduate from medical school in the USSR. Keith Gilyard has passionately embraced African-American expressive culture over the course of his career as a poet, scholar, and educator. Since the 1970s, Keith Gilyard has made significant contributions to English studies as a writer, teacher, and participant in professional associations. His more than 100 publications include the influential education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (1991), the wide-ranging True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (2011), and the revivifying On African-American Rhetoric (2018, with Adam Banks). He received an American Book Award for his biography John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism (2010). His dozens of creative works include the novella The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy (2016) and the poetry volumes Dominant Seventh (2020) and Monologues (2020). A native New Yorker, Gilyard is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. He previously taught at the City University of New York--Medgar Evers College, where he helped to establish the National Black Writers Conference, and at Syracuse University, where he directed the Writing Program. Active in the Conference on College Composition and Communication as well as the National Council of Teachers of English since 1983, Gilyard served as Chair of CCCC in 2000 and as President of NCTE in 2012. This event will be a webinar via Zoom and live-streamed on YouTube. Donate -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9839): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9839 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/84113307/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
