The 45th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series

Welcome to the 45th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series!

Join us for the 45th installment of the anual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series - Of No Nation: Black Activism for Transnational Liberation. Highlighting the interplay of ideas and strategies that continue to bolster liberation efforts in the United States and abroad.

Speakers:

James P. Garret: Civil rights activist, Writer, Academic emphasis on Political Philosophy. Keisha-Khan Perry: scholar, activist and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Paula Marie Seniors: Historian, Ethnic Studies scholar, and associate professor of Africana Studies in Virginia Tech. Quito Swan: Writer, Professor of History and Africana Studies; Director, Africana Studies Program at the George Washington University.

Image Credits Front (top to bottom): 1. Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries - Freedom Now Project; 2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Portrait of Paul Robeson” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1925 - 1970; 3. John Lewis at the Cairo IL demonstration, from SNCC poster, “Come let us build a new world together” – Danny Lyon (1962) from Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. 4. Lorie Shaull via Flickr

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Robeson Campus Center, 350 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Newark, United States