Introduction - Jennifer Kelley

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:00 AM

Peter James reads a selection from We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Peter James, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:05 AM

Dr. Ann Rondeau reads selected writings of Frederick Douglass

Ann Roundeau, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:15 AM

Anthony Walker reads "We Must Free Ourselves" by John Lewis

Anthony Walker, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:25 AM

Derrick Willis reads "Life on Mars" by Tracy K. Smith

Derrick Willis, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:35 AM

Robert Dixon-Kolar reads "Elegy for the Native Guards" by Natasha Trethewey

Robert Dixon-Kolar, College of DuPage

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10:40 AM

Jennifer Kelley reads "Joker, Joker, Deuce" by Paul Beatty

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:50 AM

Erika Pitts reads a selection from Why I Love Black Women, by Michael Eric Dyson

Erika Pitts, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:55 AM

John Kness reads "Those Winter Sundays" and "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden

John Kness

College of DuPage Library

11:05 AM

Brian O'Keefe reads a selection from A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 by Claire Hartfield

Brian O'Keefe, College of DuPage

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11:15 AM

Dana Thompson reads "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" by Ralph Ellison

Dana Thompson, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:25 AM

Nemra Maseem reads "Human Family" and "Woman Work" by Maya Angelou

Nemra Naseem, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:35 AM

Dan Bindert Reads A Selection From Giants on My Shoulders: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, by Ben Clement

Dan Bindert, College of DuPage

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11:45 AM

Franz Burnier Reads a Passage From "The World House", by Dr. Martin Luther King

Franz Burnier, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:55 AM

Kenya Rogers Reads "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou

Kenya Rogers, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:05 PM

Danny Cochran Reads a Passage from The FIre Next Time, by James Baldwin

Danny Cochran, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:15 PM

Jennifer Kelley Reads "1,968 Winters" by Jackie Earley

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:25 PM

Linda Elaine Reads "Poem About My Nights" by June Jordan

Linda Elaine, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:30 PM

Laura Koenig Reads "Harlem" and "Dreams" by Langston Hughes

Laura Koenig, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:35 PM

David Swope Reads A Selection From "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching" bu Mychal Denzel Smith

David Swope, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:45 PM

Robert Moorehead Reads Selections from Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Robert Moorehead, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

1:00 PM