Featuring Dr. Brittney Cooper
SUNY Brockport will host its 41st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture Series on Thursday, February 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Seymour Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public, with an RSVP requested at https://tinyurl.com/372js5n8. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are encouraged to attend.
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Brittney Cooper, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and Principal Investigator and Founding Director of the Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Lab. Her keynote address is titled “The Beloved Community.” A book signing with Dr. Cooper will follow the lecture.
Dr. Cooper is an award-winning scholar, author, and public intellectual whose work centers on Black feminist thought, race, gender, and social justice. She is the author of several influential books, including Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women; Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower; and Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood. Her scholarship and commentary have appeared in national outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Essence, and Ebony, and she is a frequent commentator on MSNOW and NPR.
The event is sponsored by SUNY Brockport’s Department of African and African-American Studies, Brockport Student Government, and the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
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