Busboys Books Presents: Jelani Favors for Shelter in a Time of Storm
Date and Time
Dec 2, 2019 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Dec 2, 2019 6:30 pm
14th & V
This event is FREE and open to the public. Full menu and bar will be available during the event.
For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.
Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
Jelani M. Favors is assistant professor of history at Clayton State University.
Dr. Jared Ball is a father and a husband. After that, he is a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD and is the curator of iMixWhatiLike.org, an online hub of multimedia dedicated to the philosophies of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting.
Dr. Joshua M. Myers is an assistant professor of African American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989, available on NYU Press in the fall of 2019.
