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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin Lecture

Noted literary historian Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University, will give a talk (details below) on "In Sound and Word:  Black Women Artists and The Work of Freedom."  She is the author of numerous books, including her latest, Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II.