Transatlantic Thursdays - New Negro Renaissance 2.0: From Art to STEM
Channel: AmbasciataUSA
Date: 2021-02-18

Please join us for a discussion on
New Negro Renaissance 2.0: From Art to STEM
featuring
Jeffrey Stewart
Jeffrey C. Stewart has been a professor of Black Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara since 2007 and served as Chair of the Department of Black Studies until 2016.
His most recent book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, published by Oxford University Press in 2018 has won the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In connection with Black History Month, Professor Stewart will give a virtual presentation on the challenges, struggles, and successes of African Americans in the STEM field. He will present the figure of Benjamin Banneker and the beginnings of Black STEM to inspire future-looking young people on how to achieve empowerment and prosperity through STEM.
the program will be in English