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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.