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This Friday (9/21): Award-Winning Hip Hop Journalist Joan Morgan in Conversation with Dr. Lisa B. Thompson

This Friday, September 21, at 1 pm, African and African Diaspora Studies Associate Professor Dr. Lisa B. Thompson talks with journalist and scholar Joan Morgan. The event is part of the Warfield Center's Performing Blackness Series "Duets: Black Creatives in Conversation" curated by AADS Faculty Affiliate Dr. Jennifer Wilks, Associate Director of the Center.Joan Morgan and Dr. Thompson will discuss Morgan's new book, She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the latter's new play Monroe, which is currently on stage at the Austin Playhouse, and all things black and feminist. The event will take place at the Glickman Conference Center in RLP and refreshments will be provided.unnamed