13th Annual Teach Dr. King's Speech
Showing the 2025 Teach the Speech: Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly Lecture and Q&A moderate by Dr. Orisanmi Burton Video
Friday, January 31, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
RSVP Required
Location:
Copley Hall Copley Formal Lounge and Online Map
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend this event, which will feature an Anti-racism Examen (guided community reflection and dialogue space on anti-racism), a lecture by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, a student reflection offered by Kyndall Jackson (C’27), and a book signing.
This year's event features Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her research and scholarship engage the Black radical tradition, twentieth century Black social and political thought, the intersection of antiblack racial oppression and U.S. state repression, and globalization and economic development in the African diaspora. Dr. Burden-Stelly is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States and the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. Some of her notable publications include "Against the 'Triple Evils': The Biden Administration's Affront to Dr. King's Legacy" and "Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tradition of Radical Blackness."
Dr. Orisanmi Burton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University, was the Teach the Speech keynote speaker in January 2024.
Faculty members and staff can utilize the 2025 Teach the Speech Teaching Resource created by CNDLS as they plan for the 2025 spring semester. We ask faculty who are thinking about incorporating a teach the speech element into their courses to fill out the RSVP form as well. We will provide more resources and opportunities for a CNDLS consultation with interested faculty in the coming year. We also hope to have a community event later in the semester; inviting all faculty to share their experiences and reflections.
Schedule
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. EST: Community gathering with coffee, tea, and pastries
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST: Antiracism Examen (guided community reflection and dialogue space on antiracism)
12:00 - 12:45 p.m. EST: Community gathering with lunch
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. EST: Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly lecture with Q&A moderated by Dr. Orisanmi Burton
1:45 - 2:00 p.m. EST: Break (coffee and tea)
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST: Book signing of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States(2023) with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly