Monday, March 15, 12:00 pm EDT
Artist and consultant Tiffany Jana (
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions) discusses their work, a practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees and members can feel a sense of belonging. In conversation with Kaki Dimock. Free, with registration.
Ethan Porter and John Mark Hansen:”The Consumer Citizen”
Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm EDT
Ethan Porter will discuss
The Consumer Citizen. He will be joined in conversation by John Mark Hansen. Presented in partnership with The Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University. Free, with registration.
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Book cover: University Of North Carolina Press; Big Boi and André 3000 from the Stankonia album cover
Graphic: Natalie Peeples
“It’s like this though,” André Benjamin nervously shouted over the chorus of boos. “I’m tired of close-minded folks, you know what I’m saying?” As one half, with Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, of the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo OutKast, Benjamin had just won the 1995 Source Award for Best New Rap Group. The Madison Square Garden crowd, unwilling to budge from their bicoastal sensibilities to applaud this pair of defiantly Southern rappers, was not happy. “We got this demo tape but don’t nobody wanna hear it,” Benjamin continued.
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