Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver a virtual lecture at Hollins University
Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of English Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver a virtual lecture entitled “Returning to Lady: A Reflection ‘In Search of Billie Holiday'” as part of the Hollins University Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series on Thursday, February 25th at 7:30pm.
Griffin, who has published widely on issues of race and gender, feminism, jazz, and cultural politics, is the author of Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II. Her other works include Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative; Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868; If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday; and Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever, co-authored with Salim Washington. She is chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies; director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies; and the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University.
Funding provided by the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series.
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