DBLAC

It's that time again...our November Reading Series Author Chat features Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. and Sierra Phillips. Join us as they discuss Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation.

Monday, November 14 at 6 pm EST
Registration: bit.ly/dblacblackpatience

Join us Monday, August 29 at 6pm EST for an author chat with Dr. Joshua M. Myers and Benesemon Simmons

Register here: https://bit.ly/dblacmyerssimmons

Thank you for your continued support and connection to the DBLAC community. DBLAC will begin a 3-month rest and re-vision period today. We will begin public programs and moments for connection on August 15, 2022.

During this time, we'll be centering the womanist and feminist values that ground the DBLAC community and leaning on spaces like for guidance on reconnecting the mind to the body. Finally, we plan to use the following meditative questions from for grounding:

- What expectations do you have of your community that you yourself have experienced as a burden?
-How do you contribute tot he exhaustion of the world?
-Who in your life do you resent for resting well? How will you resist envy and join them?

Join us for writing community and accountability this morning! This month's sessions are grounded and guided by the words and work of E. Patrick Johnson! http://ow.ly/GWo650ITqXW

is starting soon! Come through and work with us until 10 pm EDT. Our Virtual Writing Group is open to all. This month's sessions are grounded and guided by E. Patrick Johnson.

Our next author chat feature's Poet Angel C. Dye's debut collection Breathe. We're excited for her conversation with Samurah Curry! Come through and support on Monday, April 18, 2022 at 6 pm EDT. Registration link in bio!

Breathe is a timely offering and a catalogue of sharp inhales and deep exhales punctuated by the shifting air around us. Ancestral wounds and present-day pain unwind on these pages, but even in the darkest depths of their undercurrents, there is hope and joy to be found. These poems roar with the truths of the body and its breaks, and sigh with its jagged sutures. In this powerful debut collection, Angel C. Dye bears witness to the sacredness of scars and to the power of community, self-love, and faith in a grand design.

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This conversation is a part of DBLAC's Spring 2022 Reading Series and is supported by the University of Pittsburgh's Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education's Center for Urban Education.