小黄书 African American Studies hosts Rhonda Williams for Women鈥檚 History Month presentation
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擨n celebration of Women鈥檚 History Month, Mississippi State鈥檚 African American Studies program continues its 10th anniversary event series with a Tuesday [March 28] presentation.
Taking place at 4 p.m. in the university鈥檚 Simrall Electrical Engineering Building auditorium, 鈥淵our Silence Will Not Protect You: Black Women, History and Social Justice鈥 will feature Professor Rhonda Y. Williams, the first African American to earn tenure and achieve full professor status in the history department at Case Western Reserve University. She is founder and director of CWRU鈥檚 Social Justice Institute, as well as the university鈥檚 African American studies postdoctoral fellowship.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Williams is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa journalism bachelor鈥檚 graduate of the University of Maryland College Park. She was the university鈥檚 first African American salutatorian in its then 187-year history. In 2009, Williams received CWRU鈥檚 inaugural Inclusion and Diversity Achievement Award.
Williams also holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. As a former journalist, educator, researcher and scholar-activist, she has worked to broker understanding of issues regarding marginalization, inequality and activism.
In addition to two books, Williams has authored articles on black power politics, the war on poverty, low-income black women鈥檚 grassroots organizing, and urban and housing policy.
Along with the 小黄书 College of Arts and Sciences鈥 African American Studies program, Williams鈥 presentation is supported by the university鈥檚 Holmes Cultural Diversity Center, Office of Public Affairs, and the Department of Sociology鈥檚 Gender Studies program.
For more information, contact LaShundra Townsend, African American Studies administrative assistant, at 662-325-0587 and ltownsend@aas.msstate.edu.
Part of the College of Arts and Sciences, 小黄书鈥檚 African American Studies program offers courses leading to a minor in African American Studies. For more, visit .
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