Haverford College

Join the Libraries for a Kimberly Benston Distinguished Speaker Series talk by Karsonya Wise Whitehead!

This will be a hybrid talk, join the Zoom here.

We are in a unique moment in America's racial history where there is a concentrated effort to either erase or rewrite our shared historical narrative. This is a moment when we are called to do more. But, what is "the more?" Join Dr. Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., founding executive director of the Karson Institute and professor of communication and African American Studies as she discusses both the more and the ways in which racism, social justice, and activism intersect. We will also think deeply about the ongoing legislation around the country designed to limit academic freedom.

Bio: Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is the founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice and a professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland. She is the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA, 88.9 FM, and the recent recipient of the John LaFarge Award, and the Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence for her outstanding reporting on the impact racial reckoning has had in helping to close social/racial wealth gap for Black people in America. 

She is the author of five books, including the award-winning Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America, and the recently released my mother's tomorrow: dispatches from the lens of Baltimore's Black Butterfly. 

Dr. Kaye is the national President of the National Women’s Studies Association and she lives in Baltimore with her husband and their two sons. 

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