Everyday People: Afro-Realism, the Moynihan Report, and the 2024 Election

Join us for lunch on the 21st to hear Prof. Lester Spence present “Everyday People: Afro-Realism, the Moynihan Report, and the 2024 Election” as part of the Black Politics in Africana Studies speaker series, as convened and organized by Prof. Ainsley LeSure.  Lester Spence, Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, is an award-winning scholar, author, and teacher. Over the past two decades he’s been at the forefront of attempts to understand and contest the political production of inequality in black communities. Both of his books (Stare in the Darkness: Hip-hop and the Limits of Black Politics winner of the 2012 W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award and Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, winner of both the Baltimore City Paper and Baltimore Magazine 2016 Best Nonfiction Book Awards) broke new ground in examining the politics of our contemporary condition and he has published dozens of scholarly articles and popular essays. Spence can regularly be heard on public radio stations throughout the country as well as a range of progressive media outlets. A native of the Detroit area, Professor Spence received his PhD and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is the proud father of five children.   To attend Via Zoom please use this link- https://brown.zoom.us/j/99565492525 (https://brown.zoom.us/j/99565492525)