Schedule

Subscribe to RSS Feed

2019
Wednesday, February 6th
10:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks - Jennifer Kelley

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

10:05 AM

Dr. Brian Caputo reads selections from "The Quest for Peace and Justice," Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brian Caputo, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:05 AM - 10:15 AM

10:15 AM

Wendy Parks reads "When Great Trees Fall" and "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou

Wendy Parks

College of DuPage Library

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM

10:25 AM

Earl Dowling reads selections from Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Earl Dowling, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:25 AM - 10:35 AM

10:35 AM

Shaheen Chowdhury reads "Let It Be Known," "I Am Woman," and "Advice to the Youth," by Margaret Burroughs and "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth

Shaheen Chowdhury, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:35 AM - 10:45 AM

10:45 AM

Tom Tallman reads selections from Softly, with Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music by Edward Berger

Tom Tallman, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:45 AM - 10:55 AM

10:55 AM

Deb Zelman reads selections from Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones

Deb Zelman, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

10:55 AM - 11:05 AM

11:05 AM

Dana Thompson reads selected poems from Nikki Giovanni

Dana Thompson, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:05 AM - 11:15 AM

11:15 AM

Julia diLiberti reads selections from November 16, 2019 speech by Stacey Abrams

Julia diLiberti, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:15 AM - 11:25 AM

11:25 AM

Lisa Higgins and Kimberly Wilson read "Campus Racism 101" by Nikki Giovanni

Lisa Higgins, College of DuPage
Kimberly Wilson, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

11:35 AM

Dan Bindert reads selections from "The Ballad of Beverly and Bobby" by Nile Rodgers

Dan Bindert, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:35 AM - 11:45 AM

11:45 AM

Jennifer Kelley reads selected poems from American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:45 AM - 11:55 AM

11:55 AM

David Swope reads selections from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

David Swope, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

11:55 AM - 12:05 PM

12:05 PM

Karin Evans reads selections from Becoming by Michelle Obama

Karin Evans, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:05 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Tony Bowers reads "Suppose Sorrow was a Time Machine" by Amiri Baraka

Tony Bowers, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:15 PM - 12:25 PM

12:25 PM

Robert Morehead reads "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" by James Baldwin

Robert Morehead, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:25 PM - 12:35 PM

12:35 PM

John Kness reads selections from How it Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston

John Kness

College of DuPage Library

12:35 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Danny Cochran reads "Amethyst Rocks" by Saul Williams and original piece

Danny Cochran, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:45 PM - 12:55 PM

12:55 PM

Thank You!

Jennifer Kelley, College of DuPage

College of DuPage Library

12:55 PM - 1:00 PM