NOTES: “Reflections on Malcolm X” Contact US! Center for Law and Social Justice Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1534 Bedford Avenue, 2nd FL Brooklyn, NY 11216 Phone: (212) 817-2076 Fax: (212) 817-1579 Email: [email protected] See more at: www.clsj.org Like us: CenterforLawandSocialJustice The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1650 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 www.centerforblackliterature.org Scan QR Code to be added to our mailing list. Phone: (718) 804-8883 E-mail: [email protected] Like us: Center for Black Literature Follow us: @Center4BlackLit Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Medgar Evers College; Edison O. Jackson Auditorium 1638 Bedford Ave.; Brooklyn, NY 11225 A Conversation with Authors Herb Boyd and Gloria J. Browne-Marshall This Program Is Presented By In collaboration with the Medgar Evers College Black History Month Committee About the Program The life of Malcolm X is a remarkable one. With the recent publication of The Diary of Malcolm X: El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964 by Herb Boyd, the book presents Malcolm X’s impressions and personal observations during his travels to Africa and pilgrimage to Mecca. Readers are sure to gain even more insight into the life of a critical icon in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Author and journalist Herb Boyd will be joined in conversation with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to discuss the book; Malcolm X, the man; his papers; and his legacy on the impact of politics and social justice in our society today. This program is co-sponsored with the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, and is part of the Medgar Evers College’s Black History Month celebration. About the Participants Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an associate professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College. She was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College in the Africana Studies program. Prior to academia, Browne-Marshall was a civil rights attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and then the NAACP LDF. She provides legal commentary on CNN, CBS, MSNBC, AriseTV and radio stations NPR, BBC, WBAI, WNYC, WBLS, and WVON. She speaks nationally and internationally about racial justice and gender equality under law. Browne-Marshall is the author of several articles and the books The U.S. Constitution: An African American Context and Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (Routledge), a seminal book on race-based laws in the areas of education, voting rights, property rights, criminal justice, civil liberties, the military, and internationalism. Her forthcoming book is She Took Justice: The Powerful Rise of Black Women in America, 1619–2019. Browne-Marshall is an award-winning playwright of six produced plays such as My Juilliard, about Alzheimer’s disease, and Killing Me Softly, a murder mystery. Her latest play, Class, is about a conflict between a poor white student and his black female professor. Her column is syndicated appearing in eleven newspapers, nationwide. She is the U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for AANIC (the African-American News & Information Consortium). Follow her on twitter: @GBrowneMarshall. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the recipient of many community service awards, including the NAACP Ethel Lawrence Trailblazer Award, Association of Black Women Attorney’s Service Award, the New York County Lawyers’ Ida B. Wells Award for work on gender and race issues, the Woman of Excellence in Law Award from Wiley College (Texas), and the Community Action Award from Black Star News. Herb Boyd is the coeditor with Ilyasah Shabazz of the Diary of Malcolm X and the author of the forthcoming Black Detroit: A People’s History. He continues to write for a number of publications, including the New York Amsterdam News and The Network Journal, and he is an adjunct professor in the Black Studies Program at City College. Boyd is an author, educator and journalist born in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended Wayne State University in the 1960s. He went on to graduate with his B.A. degree in philosophy from Wayne State University in 1969. He resides in Harlem, U.S.A., where he is a prolific writer and longtime contributor to the New York Amsterdam News. Boyd has authored, coauthored, edited or coedited 23 books, including By Any Means Necessary, Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented; Jazz Space Detroit: Photographs of Black Music, Jazz, and Dance; African History for Beginners; Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America; Down the Glory Road; Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African-American History Told by Those Who Lived It; Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century; The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood; Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson; The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef; and Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin.
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