AAAS Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham to Speak at Emory

Emory University announced that AAAS Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham will deliver the 2021 James Weldon Johnson Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm (Eastern).  Professor Higginbotham’s talk, “History in the Face of Slavery: A Family Portrait,” will include a presentation of photographs related to her own family from the slavery era into the first two decades of the 20th century, with a focus on the role of photographs as sources of history. The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory sponsors the annual lecture which is free and open to the public with advance registration.