{"id":18420,"date":"2017-02-03T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:35:35","slug":"award-winning-historian-brenda-stevenson-to-speak-on-black-lives-matter-gender-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=18420","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning historian Brenda Stevenson to speak on Black Lives Matter, gender and justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18421\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/83A8A66C-2BEC-4FDC-82BD-F9CEBDE91CFD.png\" alt=\"83A8A66C-2BEC-4FDC-82BD-F9CEBDE91CFD\" width=\"281\" height=\"421\" \/>Award-winning historian Brenda Stevenson, who has been praised for \u201cbravery in journalism,\u201d will deliver the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s 13<sup>th<\/sup> annual African American History Month lecture at 7 p.m. on Feb. 8, in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Stevenson, the Nickoll Family Distinguished Professor of History at U.C.L.A. and a fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, is an acclaimed author and frequent commentator on National Public Radio. An expert on African American history, black women and familiesand race relations, her lecture \u201cWhen Do Black Female Lives Matter? Contested Assaults, Murders, and American Race Riots\u201d will discuss the connections among slavery, violence against black women, African American resistance and modern-day brutality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Her book \u201cThe Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Riots,\u201d reframed the narrative of the Los Angeles race riots as a response to the first verdict in the Rodney King trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0A former Guggenheim Fellow and National Humanities Center John Hope Franklin Fellow, Stevenson is also the recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Courage in Journalism and the Southern Historical Association\u2019s John W. Blassingame Award, given for distinguished scholarship and mentorship in African American history. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Virginia and her master\u2019s degree and doctorate from Yale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Stevenson joins a long list of distinguished scholars the University has featured for this centerpiece Black History Month event. Previous speakers include Lonnie Bunch, director of the National African American Museum; Mary Frances Berry, professor and former chair of the Civil Rights Commission; Bernice Johnson Reagon, MacArthur Genius Award recipient and Civil Rights Movement icon; and the activist and prolific author, Robin D.G. Kelley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a question and answer session. Stevenson then will also be available afterward to autograph copies of \u201cContested Murder\u201d and her most recent book, \u201cWhat Is Slavery?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><i>\u00a0<\/i>The event is sponsored by the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost, the College of Arts and Sciences and its departments of communications, music, history and African and African American diaspora studies, the Carolina Women\u2019s Center, the Center for the Study of the American South, Diversity and Multi-Cultural Affairs, Delta Sigma Theta and the Stone Center, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0Parking is available in the Bell Tower parking deck by the Stone Center. 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