COVID, Black Lives, Black Futures

Join the Department of Black Studies for our annual celebration to honor the legacy of our founder Dr. Grace Holt and celebrate students! This year’s Grace Holt lecture will feature a roundtable discussion on “COVID, Black Lives, Black Futures.” Panelists will lead us in a conversation on the local and global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black people’s lives. Moderated by Dr. Ainsworth Clarke (UIC Associate Professor of Black Studies and English).

Panelists include:

• Dr. Jennie Brier, UIC Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies; Living Women’s History of HIV/AIDS Project
• Dr. Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History at Purdue; Executive Director of COVID Black
• Dr. Jaira Harrington, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at UIC
• Dr. Karriem Watson, Research Assistant Professor of Public Health at UIC; Assoc. Executive Director at Mile Square Health Center