The NAACP Berkshires and OLLI: the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College invites all to join for a special event with guest Dr. Kerri Greenidge, who will speak about this year’s election in a historical context.
About Our Guest:
Dr. Greenidge is an American historian and academic. She is Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, where she also co-directs the African American Trail Project. She is also co-director of Tufts’ Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies Project.
Greenidge is the author of Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (2019). Listed by the New York Times as one of its top picks of 2019, the book is the first biography of Boston editor, William Monroe Trotter, written in nearly fifty years. The book received the Mark Lynton Prize in History, the Massachusetts Book Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Award, the Sperber Award from Fordham University, and the Peter J. Gomes Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Black Radical was also shortlisted for the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History, Boston, the Cundill History Prize, and the Plutarch Award for Best Biography.
Her most recent book, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in An American Family (2022) was recently listed as the best book of the year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. It was the 2023 semi-finalist for the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History in Boston, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa. The Grimkes was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, in addition to the J. Anthony Lukas Award. Her writings have appeared in the Massachusetts Historical Review, the Radical History Review, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the Guardian.
Zoom Link
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