MLAW:  Law, Art, and Activism Series

MLAW: Law, Art, and Activism Series

Date and Time

Feb 8, 2023 7:00 pm

Location

Hyattsville

5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781

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Description:

University of Maryland – College Park’s MLAW Program presents an African American History Month Arts and Activism Celebration – “Democracy, Freedom & the Meaning of Frederick Douglass”

FEATURING:

Joel Dias-Porter, Pittsburgh Poet, and Guerilla Intellectual, Author of the new innovative collection of poems – The Idea of Improvisation (books will be available for purchase & signing)

John Muller, Historian, Librarian, and author of Frederick Douglass in Washington D.C.: The Lion in Anacostia

Music by the Emory Diggs Band

HOST: Brian G Gilmore, Senior Lecturer & Poet – University of Maryland MLAW Program

Produced by Dr. Robert Koulish, Director – MLAW Program, University of Maryland

For more information on the MLAW Art and Activism series,

contact, Brian G Gilmore - bgilmore@umd.edu

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