Civil rights leaders and activists Angela Davis and the Rev. James Lawson will speak on April 4, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a special panel including Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot will examine Robert Penn Warren‘s 1965 book Who Speaks for the Negro?
These events are free and open to the public. They are part of Vanderbilt University’s “We Speak for Ourselves: A Poet, a Prophet and Voices for the 21st Century” conference on April 4, presented by Vanderbilt’s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
12 p.m., Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School
Panel presentation and audience discussion of Who Speaks for the Negro?
3 p.m., Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School
The Rev. James Lawson, “Allowing a Living Past to Compel a Pregnant Now”
7:30 p.m., Fisk University Chapel
A Web cast of portions of the conference will be available after the event on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s news network, www.vanderbilt.edu/news. For more news about Vanderbilt University, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
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