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FALL 2017 EVENTS
Official Screening: Whose Streets?
7:00pm October 19, 2017
Location: MUR 035
Whose Streets - Official Website
The activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice bring you Whose Streets? -- a documentary about the Ferguson Uprising. As the National Guard descends on Ferguson, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new wave of resistance.
LaVonya Bennett
7:00pm - October 23, 2017
Location: JB 101
Title of talk: "Insidious Trauma: Exploring the Mental Health Implications for Experiences with Oppression"
Clinic Supervisor and Therapist, OU Counseling Psychology Clinic
J. W. Franklin talk “Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture”
7:00pm - November 15, 2017
Location: Murray Hall Parlor
Official Website: National Museum of African American History and Culture
This talk is part of the Murray Hall Civil Rights Speaker Series.
Kiese Laymon - Reading from his new book "Heavy: An American Memoir"
7:00pm - November 27, 2017
Location: MUR 035
Official Website: Kiese Laymon
Author of the acclaimed novel, Long Division, and essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Laymon will read from his forthcoming memoir, Heavy. Laymon is a professor of English and African American Studies at University of Mississippi.
For additonal information, email africanastudies@okstate.edu or call 405-744-7692.