Drawing inspiration from the Black radical tradition and models of restorative justice, writer and journalist Melissa Harris Perry will explore the history and applications of collective care in her lecture "Radical Care: Nurturing Self, Community, and Democracy," on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. in Ives Hall, Room 305.
Melissa Harris-Perry at Cornell in 2015, when she gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
The lecture is free and open to the public; registration is required. Harris-Perry's public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.
Another event, which includes movement and yoga, will offer students the opportunity to practice embodied and interactive care within community. It will take place on Feb. 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Willard Straight 407.
"We asked our first cohort of Racial Justice Student Fellows to develop a theme for Black History Month, and they worked together to come up with the excellent idea of focusing on care, and exploring it through the lens of seminal thinkers like Audre Lorde and Ella Baker," said Jamila Michener, director of the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures and associate professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and public policy in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
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