Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety: From Learning to Loving in the US course includes a series of public guest panels around living while Black. Tune in for the next event of this spring, featuring Darryl Pinckney and Nsé Ufot, on March 16 at 1pm.
Event
Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Voting while Black with Darryl Pinckney and Nsé Ufot
Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney, a long-time contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of two novels, High Cotton (1992) and Black Deutschland (2016), and three works non-fiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002), Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy (2014), and Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019). Blackballed is Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of participation by Black people in US electoral politics and outlines the struggle for voting rights from Reconstruction through to the civil rights movement to Obama's two presidential campaigns and the new edition contains an essay reflecting on last summer's protests. In several of the essays in Busted in New York, Pinckney witnesses events in the streets, from the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., to Black Lives Matter resistance in Ferguson, Missouri five years ago, and explores the shifting consciousness in the history of Black identity.
Nsé Ufot
Nsé Ufot is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP) and its affiliate, New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGP AF). Nsé leads both organizations with a data-informed approach and a commitment to developing tools that leverage technology with the goal of making it easier for every voter to engage in every election. Nsé and her team are also developing Georgia’s home-grown talent by training and organizing local activists across the state. She has dedicated her life and career to working on civil, human and workers’ rights issues and leads two organizations whose complementary aim is to strengthen Georgia’s democracy. Under Nsé’s leadership, NGP has registered over 500K eligible Georgians to vote and has no plans of slowing down.