Humanities Washington Talk: A Space for Black History

Sat, February 3

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Free

Greenwood Senior Center

525 N. 85th St., Seattle, WA, 98103, United States

Saturday, February 3, 1-2 pm. Free.
Across the country, efforts to suppress Black history in libraries and classrooms have taken root. Anger against “critical race theory” and “wokeness” has led to new laws prohibiting what can and cannot be taught to students of all ages, and what books can remain in libraries. Why are there efforts to limit this knowledge? Are some ideas just too dangerous? If so, how do we decide what those are as a society? Shouldn’t we have the freedom to think, to know, to aspire? To counter some of these efforts, professor Luther Adams – Free Man of Color, uses Black thought, images, and poetry, as well as local history, to create an open space to ask questions about Black history and why it matters to all of us.

Luther Adams – Free Man of Color is an associate professor of ethnic, gender, and labor studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. As a student and teacher of Black history and culture, his work brings together the interdisciplinary study of urban, southern, labor, and religious history to understand Black culture and life.

Sponsored by Humanities Washington. humanities.org. RSVP: 206.297.0875.

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