The 2022 annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration featured two young, Black authors in a conversation entitled “In Praise of Being Black and Alive.” On Thursday, February 3 at 7pm, we welcomed Danté Stewart to speak about his new book, “Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle.” Danté was joined by Ithaca-based author and curator of the popular Black Liturgies website Cole Riley, whose book “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us” is due out February 22. Both authors grappled with the legacy of white supremacy in America and invited us to reclaim the liberative and communitarian spiritual practices so central to the work of Dr. King.
SPONSORS: Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making (OSMM) and Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI), Greater Ithaca Activity Center (GIAC)
COSPONSORS: College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; St. Luke Lutheran Church;
Protestant Cooperative Ministry; Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life; Flora Rose House; Bowers College of Computing and Information Science - Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Cornell Health; David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement; ILR School
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