Barbara Ransby to present Anna Julia Cooper Lecture

Historian, writer and political activist Barbara Ransby will deliver the 2016 Anna Julia Cooper Lecture Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at the Porter Byrum Welcome Center’s Kulynych Auditorium.

The Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest is presenting the lecture.  The center is an interdisciplinary research center that advances justice through intersectional scholarship.

The event is free and open to the public.

She is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the departments of African American studies, gender and women’s studies and history. She also directs the campus-wide social justice initiative at the university.

More information about the event is available here.