Anna Julia Cooper Lecture
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
5:30 p.m.--7:30 p.m.
Rita Anne Rollins Room 102
Join Candler's Black Church Studies Program for the annual Anna Julia Cooper Lecture with distinguished guest speaker AnneMarie Mingo, Associate Professor of Ethics, Culture, and Moral Leadership and Director of the Metro-Urban Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Learn more about Dr. Mingo here.
Lecture, 5:30 p.m.: “Cultivating Courageous Resistance: Black Churchwomen’s Activism in Freedom Struggles”
Maya Angelou described courage as “the most important of the virtues, because without it, no other virtues can be practiced consistently.” The resilience of Black women during the Civil Rights Movement is rooted in their faith and courage to resist the systems and structures that sought to dispute the dignity of their womanhood and personhood. This lecture explores the virtue of Courageous Resistance that Mingo identified through the liberative ethics and lived theology of Black Churchwomen during the Civil Rights Movement and offers applications for contemporary freedom and justice struggles.
The Black Church Studies 2023-24 theme is "The Black Church—Beyond Boundaries," which considers Afro-Protestantism and the Black Church’s service and work beyond traditional boundaries.
For more information, contact Black Church Studies (BCS) Director, Dr. Nichole R. Phillips at nichole.r.phillips@emory.edu