A Conversation about Blackness, Immigration, and What it Means to Be An American

Boston University's Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground and African American Studies department proudly present this conversation inspired by Louis Chude-Sokei's recently published memoir Floating in the Most Peculiar Way.

Featured Guests:

Louis Chude-Sokei, Author, director of African American Studies and professor of English at Boston University

Ha Jin, Winner of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author, poet, professor of English at Boston University

Sanjay Krishnan, Author, associate professor of English at Boston University

Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author, professor of English at Boston University

Archelle Thelemaque (COM'21), Howard Thurman Center Ambassador

Zoom link: rebrand.ly/t1g4yz5 passcode: 714657

When 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 22, 2021
Location Zoom
Contact Email thurman@bu.edu