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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AT YUMA: 400 Years: African American Past and Presence on December 3

Exhibit

Arizona State University at Yuma recently issued the following announcement.

Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019  1

Time: 8:00-20:30

Address: George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

Address: 415 E Grant St, Phoenix, Arizona 85004

Ticket: Ticketscsrd.asu.edu

Details

Forced Migrations. Deliberate Resistance. Ingenious Survival. Cultural Resilience.

Join us for a moving program to mark the close of the historic 400 years anniversary of the arrival of Africans in America. The program features a stirring exhibition of works by the internationally acclaimed artist L’Merchie Frazier, rituals of remembrance led by Sakena Young-Scaggs, PhD and a panel discussion that includes ASU faculty Lois Brown, PhD and Calvin Schermerhorn, PhD and Princess Crump, Board President, George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

Free  |  Open to the Public  |  Light refreshments

Speakers and Panelists:

L'Merchie Frazier - fiber artist and educator

 Lois Brown, PhD - director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Foundation Professor of English, ASU

Princess Crump - board president, George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center

Sakena Young-Scaggs, PhD - Honors Faculty Fellow, Barrett, the Honors College, ASU

Calvin Schermerhorn, PhDprofessor of History

School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, ASU

Original source can be found here.

Source: Arizona State University at Yuma

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