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The African American Studies Department presents Black History Month: Our Democracy

February 26, 2018 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Keynote event: LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Black History Month: our Democracy

LaShonda Katrice Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1974, and grew up in Park Forest, Illinois. She is the author of the debut novel Jam on the Vine (Grove 2015; paperback 2/2016) and a story collection (1999). Designated a Stonewall Honor Award by the American Library Association (2016), Jam was an Editor’s Choice pick at the Chicago Tribune; won ElIe Magazine’s Belle Lettres 2015 Reader’s Prize and earned Barnett the Emerging Writers Award at the 2015 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. The novel was shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and is a 2016 Lambda Literary Award finalist.

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February 26, 2018
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2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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N119

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African American Studies Department