How Black Women are Shaping the Future of American Democracy

As part of our William C. Powers Jr. Speaker Series, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) proudly presents "How Black Women Are Shaping the Future of American Democracy with Tressie McMillan Cottom" on Thursday, Nov.19 at Noon CST. Dr. Cottom is the New York Times best-selling author of Thick. And Other Essays (National Book Award Finalist), co-host of the podcast "Hear to Slay" with Roxanne Gay, a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, a senior faculty researcher with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.