Civil Rights Veteran, Acclaimed Writer Daphne Muse Speaks on Documenting Black History, Feb. 25 (Note New Date)
February 7, 2019
Contact: Office of Government and Public Affairs
Phone: 410.837.5739
NOTE: Due to the possibility of bad weather later this week, we have rescheduled this event for Monday, Feb. 25 at 5.30 p.m. in the same location.
Daphne Muse, a veteran of the civil rights movement and a nationally recognized collector of black history, life and culture, will speak on "Correspondence Documenting Black History and Culture Across the Diaspora (1898-2019)," on Monday, Feb. 25 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Baltimore's H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons Town Hall, 1415 Maryland Ave. The event is free and open to the public. It's part of UB's celebration of Black History Month.
Muse, a writer and the former secretary of the Angela Davis Legal Defense Team (1971-72), is the founder of the Letters Project, a rich, decades-old collection of more than 3,700 handwritten and typed letters wth activists, writers, artists and world leaders, including Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker, Richard Pryor, and President Obama.
Based in California, Muse is the author of Children of Africa and Prejudice: Stories About Hate, Ignorance, Revelation, and Transformation. She has served as a consultant to a number of PBS shows for children and young adults. She also is the former director of the Women’s Leadership Institute at Mills College.
This event is co-sponsored by the UB History program, the History Club, the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, the Diversity and Culture Center, and the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics.