A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race 3.3.19- CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Date and Time
Mar 3, 2019 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Mar 3, 2019 5:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This Month's Topic: Celebrating Women's History Month
With the recent successful campaigns of many women in the last election and Kamala Harris announcing her intention to run for President, we want to discuss the importance of having these voices heard on every level of politics. How can we continue to expand the representation of women of color in all realms? What is the historical context for these success stories?Â
Featuring:
Khadijah Ali-Coleman is a multi-media strategist and professional creative who has built an expansive interdisciplinary career as a professional in higher education, media, student development, and the arts. As an educator and speaker, she has shared her expertise in digital media, communication studies, gender equity, African-American issues, college first-year experience, and the arts. She has also worked as a facilitator with notable brands such as BlogHer, Ignite DC, DC Commission on the Arts, Capital Fringe, the National Urban League's Haysbert Entrepreneurial Center and more.
Finally, she is founder of Liberated Muse Arts Group which began as a membership-driven digital community in 2008 and now serves as a performance arts company that produces stage productions, books, and educational workshops. Khadijah's work through Liberated Muse has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum, United States Peace Corps headquarters, DC Public Library System, Artscape Festival, Baltimore Book Festival, and other venues catering to diverse populations. She has edited two book anthology collections, Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul (2009) and Liberated Muse Volume II: Betrayal Wears a Pretty Face (2012) that are available on Amazon.com and other online booksellers. The third anthology, Creases Expelled from the Fold (2017) was published on LiberatedMuse.com as a digital anthology that can be viewed for free.
Vy Vu is a Vietnamese artist, educator, and organizer based in Washington, D.C. They use their arts as a tool to uplift collective voices and shift power to communities. Vy works with a variety of mediums such as painting, printmaking, digital illustration, and sculpture, tailoring their artistry to fit the needs of different communities. They hope to offer a different perspective on art as a communal process that helps communities heal, celebrate and reclaim their identities in the face of injustice. Vy believes in creating and organizing with intention, spiritual groundedness, humbleness, and mutual accountability.Â
Vy got a B.A. degree in English and Studio Art from the College of Wooster in Ohio. They currently work full-time as a Sex Educator and Youth Organizer for a local non-profit, do freelance visual art as a side hustle, and serve as a Leader at The Sanctuaries, D.C. Some of Vy's most recent works include: creating mobilization art for 2019 Women's March; live creating and speaking at 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions: Justice Assembly; 2018 Reimagining Interfaith: Keynote Panel; and 2017 PICO Prophetic Resistance Summit: Reorganizing Faith Movements Panel.
Moderated by:Â
Dr. Julianne Malveaux Dr. Malveaux has long been recognized for her progressive and insightful observations. She is a labor economist, noted author, and colorful commentator. Julianne Malveaux has been described by Dr. Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.†Her contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts are shaping public opinion in 21st century America.
Dr. Malveaux’s popular writing has appeared in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Essence Magazine, and the Progressive. Her weekly columns appeared for more than a decade (1990-2003) in newspapers across the country including the Los Angeles Times, Charlotte Observer, New Orleans Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Examiner. She has hosted television and radio programs, and appeared widely as a commentator on networks, including CNN, BET, PBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, and others
Free and open to all.Â
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
