The Annual James Cone Lecture

 

Having problems viewing this email? View online. Join us Wednesday, April 6 at 6:00 p.m. EST, as Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology and director of the African American Studies Program at Colby College will deliver the Second Annual James H. Cone Lecture. RSVP to attend online or in-person The lecture titled The Troubles in Mind Nobody Knows: James Cone’s Enduring Witness and the Spirituals, Sacred and Secular, will focus on the impact and the importance of James Cones’ 1972 publication, The Spirituals and the Blues, which is marking its 50th anniversary this year. This publication is an important component to understanding the current struggle over the knowledge about slavery and the experience of the people who were enslaved. .