Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, Isabel Wilkerson spent 15 years interviewing more than 1,200 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns, her award-winning work of narrative nonfiction that tells the epic story of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America and has become known as the Great Migration. Toni Morrison calls the book “profound, necessary, and a delight to read.” Tom Brokaw praises it as “an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.” Wilkerson is a gifted and passionate speaker who has addressed the topics of migration, social justice, urban affairs, and 20th Century history at universities across the country and in Europe. She has appeared on national programs such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, PBS’s Charlie Rose, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and others. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and as the James M. Cox Jr. Professor at Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
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The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.