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CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH MARITA: A Black Women Writer’s Showcase to Honor Women’s History Month
March 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
We’ll discuss the women in our lives who inspired us to write, the women writers who modeled excellence for us, and the challenges and satisfactions of our current projects.
Joining me will be:
- Novelist Kalisha Buckhanon, author most recently of the novel Speaking of Summer
- Athena Dixon, essayist and nonfiction writer and author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Felicia Pride, award-winning filmmaker, writer for Queen Sugar and Grey’s Anatomy
- DeNeen Brown, veteran Washington Post journalist whose recent investigative reporting on the Tulsa massacre will be featured in an upcoming documentary
- Imani Perry, Hughes-Roberts Professor of African American Studies at Princeton and author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Zelda Lockhart, author of the forthcoming novel The Trinity: The Story of The Father, The Son and the Black Daughter Who Set Things Up Right Again, and the memoir Recollect: A Black Woman’s Journey to Decolonize Mind, Body, and Soul.