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Broadcasting Hope: Evoking the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida
February 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
February 16, 2022
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center
(837 SE 7th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601)
This community listening event is part of an ongoing grant-funded project between WUFT News and the Florida Humanities Council. This community-driven project, entitled Broadcasting Hope: Evoking the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida, will produce a six-part podcast that will air on 89.1/90.1 NPR News and Talk and publish alongside a multimedia series on WUFT.org. The first event will be hosted at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center on February 16 to share a pilot of Episode One, which explores the roots of African heritage in Florida, colonial roots and its legacies and the practice of decolonizing representations. Keynote speaker Leslie Harris, a professor of history and African American Studies at Northwestern University, will give a presentation “Transforming University-Community Relationships: Working with Hopefulness.”
*Dinner is provided for the first 50 attendees.
