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VITERBO MLK DAY CELEBRATION

January 16, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CST

This event will also be livestreamed on the Viterbo University Reinhart Institute for Ethics Facebook page.

Dr. Andre E. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies and the Scholar in Residence at the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. He teaches classes in African American Public Address, Rhetoric Race and Religion, Media Studies, Interracial Communication, Rhetoric of Social Movements, and Hip Hop Studies. Dr. Johnson is the author of No Future in this Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). He is the co-author (with Amanda Nell Edgar) of The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (2018) that won the National Communication Association (NCA) 2019 African American Communication and Culture Division Outstanding Book Award. He is also the author of The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition (2012) that won the National Communication Association (NCA) 2013 African American Communication and Culture Division Outstanding Book Award and the editor of Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality (2013). He is also the curator and director of the Henry McNeal Turner Project (#HMTProject); a digital archive dedicated to the writings and study of Bishop Turner.

Details

Date:
January 16, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CST
Website:
https://www.viterbo.edu/db-reinhart-institute-ethics-leadership/lecture-series

Venue

VITERBO FINE ARTS CENTER
929 JACKSON ST.
LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN 54601
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