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YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown State University Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents the Men of Color Summit Feb. 26 and 27.
Zoom meeting sessions are 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 26 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 27.
The keynote speaker on Feb. 26 is Richard B. Marks Jr., the director of the Cross-Cultural Center and Center for Global Citizenship at Saint Louis University. He is a graduate of Indiana University, with both a bachelor’s in African American Studies / Sociology and a master’s in Higher Education Administration in Student Affairs.
Marks earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership from Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Marks’ dissertation “As the World Turns: Being Black and Gay on Campus in the 21st Century,” explores factors contributing to the black gay men at a predominately white institution in southern California.
SEAN BARRON
YOUNGSTOWN The insurrectionist attack Jan. 6 on the U.S. Capitol was more than merely a spontaneous act by hundreds of angry and radicalized supporters of President Donald Trump, but is the newest extension of a historical pattern that dates to the 19th century, a black-studies professor and scholar contends.
“It was the latest substantiation of U.S. betrayal of democracy,” Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chairman of Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies, said.
Glaude was the keynote speaker for Friday’s sixth annual Black Unity Conference, a two-hour webinar in which he shared his views on racial and social justice, civil rights and the Nov. 3, 2020, election. Glaude also discussed how he’s been influenced by the famous writer, playwright, essayist and activist James Baldwin, about whom he penned his latest book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” released last June.
Sean Barron
YOUNGSTOWN The insurrectionist attack Jan. 6 on the U.S. Capitol was more than merely a spontaneous act by hundreds of angry and radicalized supporters of President Donald Trump, but is the newest extension of a historical pattern that dates to the 19th century, a black-studies professor and scholar contends.
“It was the latest substantiation of U.S. betrayal of democracy,” Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chairman of Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies, said.
Glaude was the keynote speaker for Friday’s sixth annual Black Unity Conference, a two-hour webinar in which he shared his views on racial and social justice, civil rights and the Nov. 3, 2020, election. Glaude also discussed how he’s been influenced by the famous writer, playwright, essayist and activist James Baldwin, about whom he penned his latest book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” released last June.