BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4037-dac92b9a3889639d2b3e008c0e41901d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260531T115658Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T140000 SUMMARY:Africana Research Center: Dr. Shannon King, “Strong People Don’t Need St rong Leaders” DESCRIPTION:\nMovement strategies on professional development in the neo liberal era. \;\n\nShannon King is an historian of the black freedom struggle outside the South\, particularly New York City during the firs t half of the twentieth century\, and is the author of \;Whose Harle m Is This\, Anyway? \;(NYU Press 2015). His work has appeared in the  \;Journal of African American History\, \;Journal of Urban Hist ory\, and \;Reviews in American History\; and essays in \;Unders tanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement\, \;The Strange Caree rs of the Jim Crow North\, and \;Escape from New York!\n\nDr. King&r squo\;s teaching interests are largely about the Black Freedom Struggle\ , urban and social history\, gender and women&rsquo\;s history\, carcera l studies\, and racial capitalism. His research interests lie mainly in Black politics outside the South\, political economy and capitalism\, so cial movements\, and community politics.\n\nThis event also has a Zoom o ption. Please RSVP to mjc7030@psu.edu to let us know if you will be atte nding in person or virtually. A Zoom link will be sent out the day befor e the event to all those attending virtually. \;\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/arc_shannon-king/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Movement strate gies on professional development in the neoliberal era. 

Shan non King is an historian of the black freedom struggle outside the South , particularly New York City during the first half of the twentieth cent ury, and is the author of Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?  ;(NYU Press 2015). His work has appeared in the Journal of Afric an American History, Journal of Urban History, and  Reviews in American History; and essays in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North, and Escape from New York!

D r. King’s teaching interests are largely about the Black Freedom S truggle, urban and social history, gender and women’s history, car ceral studies, and racial capitalism. His research interests lie mainly in Black politics outside the South, political economy and capitalism, s ocial movements, and community politics.

This event also has a Zoom option. Please RSVP to mjc7030@psu .edu to let us know if you will be attending in person or virtually. A Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event to all those atte nding virtually. 

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/a rc_shannon-king/

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