Black History Month Event - Sunday, March 8, 2015, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Sunday, March 8th, 2015, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
St. Mary’s Church Hall, 15 Washington St., Winchester
(The Hall is on the hill opposite the church.)

Please join us as we share an afternoon with Dr. Peniel Joseph, who will deliver a talk titled ‘From Selma to Ferguson: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.’

Peniel E. Joseph is Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of the award-winning Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America; Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama; and the newly released Stokely: A Life. He is also the editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era, and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. He received a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. from Temple University.

Dr. Joseph is a frequent observer on issues of race, democracy, and civil rights whose commentary has been featured on National Public Radio, The Colbert Report, PBS, and MSNBC. His articles, Op-Eds, and book reviews have been published in newspapers from The Washington Post to The New York Times.

The recipient of fellowships from Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Ford Foundation, Professor Joseph’s essays have appeared in The Journal of American History, The Chronicle Review, The Black Scholar, Souls, and American Historical Review. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
This program is brought to you by St. Mary’s Church Peace and Justice Committee and the Winchester Multicultural Network.

This program is free of charge and all are welcome. Any questions please contact office@wmcn.org or call 781-729-7100.