Events

(Adult Education Event) John Lewis: From Protest to Politics Born into poverty in rural Alabama, John Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South,[...]

(Adult Education Event) Susan Sontag: Cultural Politics and Moral Imperative In the early 1960s, Susan Sontag (1933-2004) began publishing critical essays on postwar avant-garde culture.  As time went on, however, she turned her attention to exposing incipient fascism, political scapegoating, writers in distress, and to mass victimization - in this last regard, even putting her[...]