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Join us for a conversation with OSU professor Judson L. Jeffries and WCBE Jazz Sunday host Jack Marchbanks looking back on the legacy of Malcolm X's life and activism on his 100th birthday.
Join us for an engaging evening of conversation and reflection as we celebrate the life and legacy of Malcolm X—the revolutionary thinker, human rights activist, and enduring symbol of Black liberation. Scholars Dr. Judson L. Jeffries, Professor of African American & African Studies at OSU, and Jack Marchbanks, WCBE Jazz Sunday producer and host, will be in conversation looking back on Malcolm X's life, activism, and evolving legacy on his 100th birthday.
About the Presenters:
Judson L. Jeffries is Professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He earned his PhD in political science at the University of Southern California. Professor Jeffries’s interests include police-community relations, race and medicine to state violence and revolutionary movements of the 1960s. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 12 books, many journal articles, including guest editing the Malcolm X special issue of Journal of African American Studies published in September 2020, as well as book chapters and newspaper articles. Dr. Jeffries is also the editor-in-chief of Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men.
Jack Marchbanks is the former Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation and a longtime host and producer of Jazz Sunday, a weekly, three-hour radio program on WCBE (90.5 FM). Marchbanks earned his Ph.D. in History from Ohio University, where his dissertation examines the lives, advocacy, and influence of prominent jazz musicians, writers, and activists - including Malcolm X, during the American Civil Rights Movement. He helped establish the Rahsaan Roland Kirk Scholarship for the Arts along with his wife, Alice Flowers, Candice Kirk-Howell, and Bob Weiler. Marchbanks centered his doctoral dissertation on jazz artists’ advocacy and financial support of the American Civil Rights Movement. Marchbanks has noted, “Jazz is an American treasure and our most important cultural export to the world. The melodies and arrangements created by its peerless artists are soul-enriching and timeless.”
Join us in person, or live stream this program on BPL's YouTube channel.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Global and Cultural Awareness | Civics, Current Events, and History | Art Music and Culture |
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
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