Upcoming events
Land & Liberation: Harry Haywood's Legacy in the Current Moment
Join Center for Political Education for a discussion of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood, Negro Liberation, now in a new edition featuring a foreword by his daughter Dr. Rebecca Hall and an introduction by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. This event will feature a conversation with Dr. Hall, Dr. Burden-Stelly and renowned scholar and activist Robin D.G. Kelley.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Haymarket Books.
Book Release: Negro Liberation
Join Dr. Rebecca Hall and Kyle T. Mays as they discuss and celebrate the new edition of Negro Liberation, a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood. THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.
Advanced literacy series: Reading as Resistance
Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake, for a spirited workshop series where she will guide participants on how to read deeply, and how to develop an effective annotation system that works for you to help you retain crucial knowledge. We will study Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, a foundational text that reveals the history and consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and how it shaped Africa, which ultimately made it easier to colonize and then exploit that continent. This book provided a crucial intervention into the concept that colonization provided anything but destruction to Africa. They might have built roads, but they all led to the Sea, Rodney pointed out.
Writing for the Graphic Medium (in person)
Have you ever wanted to create your own graphic novel but you aren’t sure where to start? Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, award-winning author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts for an engaging discussion about how she turned her dissertation into a graphic novel, and how you can create your own story too. Dr. Hall will explain the arc of the comic storyline, and the rules of comic grammar and when to break them to tell a more effective story. You’ll walk away with a greater appreciation of the comics medium, as well as practical next steps to bring the comic you have been dreaming of creating to life.