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Diversity Lecture Series
From Minority to Majority, Invisible to Envisioning Helen Zia
MCC Theater
In these challenging times, as people of color, feminists, LGBTQs, and People of Conscience make up the majority of America and refuse to be silenced, writer Helen Zia, the daughter of immigrants from China, explores our increasingly colorful future and the imperative for communities to move forward together to re-envision the new face of America.
Helen Zia is an activist, award-winning author and former journalist who is outspoken on issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering homophobia. Helen received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Law School of the City University of New York and is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University’s first coeducational class.
Cup of Culture
Guava Island
MCC Theater
In this film, starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, a young musician seeks to hold a festival to liberate the oppressed people of Guava Island, even if only for a day. Guava Island is a 2019 musical-romance-thriller from director Hiro Murai. 56m
Race and Religion
The Struggle Continues: Religion, Prisons, and Abolition
MCC Lounge
Laura McTighe is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University and the
Co-Founder and Associate Director of Front Porch Research Strategy in New Orleans.
As an interdisciplinary scholar of gender, race, religion, and social movements, she
studies the often-hidden histories of struggle that fill our present and asks how activists
use religion to organize and transform our world.
Race & Literature
Raisin in the Sun - Sojourner Kincaid-Rolle
MCC Meeting Room
The story tells of a black family's experiences in 'Clybourne Park', a fictionalized version of the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the father..
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is poet, playwright, an environmental educator and a peace activist. She was selected as i Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, CA and served a two-year term. (2015-2017). Her book of poems for young people, The Mellow Yellow Global Umbrella: La Sombrilla Global, Amarillo y Apacible was published by Lucky Penny Press (2015). Her other books include Common Ancestry (Millie Grazie Press, 1999) and Black Street, (Center for Black Studies Research – 2009).
