Presented By: Residential College
#Black Lives Matter: A Minicourse by the Residential College
Representation and Contemporary Politics
This session shows photographic work in civil rights struggles from the United States to South Africa. David Turnley (Faculty, STP Program, RC, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Photojournalist) will launch our discussion of the role of photography in the current wave of protests and why representation matters. Jerria Martin, the subject of an upcoming documentary "Hope Dreams", is one of the prominent young black women leaders of the Deep South. She will lead this spring's reenactment of the Civil Rights March led by Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, and hopes one day to run for mayor of Selma. Ms. Martin will discuss the changes over the last 50 years following the Civil Rights Amendment of 1965, and the challenges and dreams of getting to a place where Black Lives Matter in America.
Explore Similar Events
-
Loading Similar Events...