Dr. Yohuru Williams *Where Do We Go From Here*

  • October 19, 2017
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 CST
  • Damen Student Center, Multipurpose Room
  • Kyle Roberts, kroberts2@luc.edu
  • Not open to the public.
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    In this engaging lecture, Dr. Williams explores the many distressing contemporary events related to race and racial equality while exploring the need for and dimensions of the new push for human rights and social justice in the 21st century. Drawing on lessons from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, he examines pathways to justice through Jesuit Mission & Identity in community building and instruction.

    We are delighted to welcome Dr. Yohuru Williams to Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Williams is a prolific scholar, an earnest advocate of engaged teaching and learning, and an inspiring speaker. He espouses a deep commitment to teaching that asks students to think critically and uncover historically important content with present day implications. His approach supports the core tenets of the Ignatian pedagogy with an emphasis on context, experience and reflection. We hope you will join us for what promises to be an exciting event.

    Dr. Williams has held a variety of administrative posts both within and outside the university including serving as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fairfield University, Vice President for Public Education and Research at the Jackie Robinson Foundation in New York City, and Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

    Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006) and Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook (Corwin, 2008). He is the editor of A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present, Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002), and the co-editor of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke University, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke University, 2009). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color