“Black Leadership, Partisan Politics and Social Activism” is theme of a Black History Month symposium to be hosted by the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University on February 8-9.
Organizers note that the two-day symposium will bring together community leaders, activists, academics and students to discuss ” the limitations and possibilities of political representation and social activism for advancing Black communities.
The symposium will open with a conversation by Professors David Austin of John Abbott College in Montreal and Amoaba Gooden of Kent State University, Ohio, facilitated by Professor Tamari Kitossa of Brock University in St. Catharines on the evening of February 8.
This will be followed by two panels on February 9 featuring several Toronto community leaders.