FRI MAR 04 @ NOON-1:30PM | ONLINE via ZOOM

OPEN TO TAPS STUDENTS, FACULTY, & STAFF

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“TWICE MILITANT FRIENDSHIPS: NINA SIMONE, LORRAINE HANSBERRY, JAMES BALDWIN AND THE BLACK RADICAL ART OF COLLABORATION”

This seminar session explores the intersectional, radically progressive lives, performances, and literary and intellectual work of three genius African American artists who were aligned with each other in Black freedom struggle aspirations and intellectual, aesthetic, and political sensibilities and who, likewise, cultivated meaningful friendships with one another at the height of the Civil Rights movement. James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Nina Simone drew creative inspiration from each other, produced aesthetic work as forms of critical communication with and heartfelt tributes for one another, and together forged a revolution in Black radical cultural politics that shaped an era. How might we look to their socio-aesthetic and intellectual intimacies as models for our own work in the modern academy and beyond?