On Tuesday, October 23rd, Dr. Christopher Tinson, winner of the 2018 Pauli Murray Book Prize, will present the talk, Warring with Democracy: Black Activism and the Challenge of History.

Dr. Tinson is an associate professor of Africana Studies and History and Director of the African American Studies Program at Saint Louis University.  His research and teaching focuses on histories of Africana and radical traditions, U.S. Ethnic Studies, critical media studies, incarceration, and race and sports.

This event is sponsored by the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI, the Department for African and African American Studies at Duke University, The Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity, the Duke University Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center@FHI, Duke University, and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.