| As Spelman College celebrates Women’s History Month, faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend the following events:
Forgotten Herstories: The 1976 Lock-In of the Spelman Board of Trustees
Monday, March 25 | 4 p.m. | Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center Auditorium
The Women's Resource and Research Center is hosting "Forgotten Herstories: The 1976 Lock-In of the Spelman Board of Trustees." The six-person panel, featuring a few of the original protest organizers and attendees, will meet next week in remembrance of the 1976 lock-in protest and its historical significance.
Audre Lorde Talk: "How You Like Me Now?"
Wednesday, March 27 | 4 p.m. | Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D Academic Center Conference Room 206
Audre Lorde invited Black women to investigate hate, love, silence, language, malignity, community and work as a precursor to our acceptance of our own
necessary power. How would we "talk back" to Lorde nearly 50 years after the publication of "Litany For Survival" and "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action?"
Film Screening and Discussion: "Litany '[of]' Survival" From Exegesis to Xenogenesis
Thursday, March 28 | 4 p.m. | Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D Academic Center LL32
"Litany For Survival" by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson (1996)
"Litany [of] Survival: Black Women, Black Futures". Black women's histories [litanies of survival] as future.
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