MBU presents its second annual Ida B. Wells Lecture

7 p.m. | November 8, 2022
James D. Francis Auditorium
Mary Baldwin University

Watch via Zoom: https://marybaldwin-edu.zoom.us/j/83546603913?pwd=M0prUFFoV0xvWFFLRTdXcDNjNG1NQT09

Speaker: Dr. Paula Giddings

Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies at Smith College

Dr. Paula Giddings is a leading scholar on social justice, race, anti-racism, and Black feminism. Her book Ida, A Sword Among Lions won The Los Angeles Times book prize for biography and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.

This lecture will center on Ida B. Wells and her resistance strategies within a larger conversation about the
politics of race and gender in America.