Conference features renowned participants
URBANA – Two nationally known writers will deliver the keynote talks at a conference hosted by the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois. It opens today and runs through Saturday on the UI campus and is free and open to the public.
"Rupture, Repression and Uprising: Raced and Gendered Violence Along the Color Line," explores the continued local, national and global legacies of a history of violence in America, particularly in the past 40 years.
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