UPDATE: This event has been canceled due to severe winter weather.
HOUSTON – (Jan. 8, 2024) – The Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University will host a special event in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Jan. 16, Treva Lindsey, professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Ohio State University and co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House, will deliver a lecture titled “Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water: The Enduring Power of Black Freedom Dreams.”
The Rice community and public are invited to the lecture at Kraft Hall 130 as Lindsey will provide a Black feminist historicizing of King’s legacy, exploring the profound impact of his dreams. Beyond the commonly cited and sometimes misunderstood “dream,” Lindsey will illuminate how King, alongside countless unknown individuals, engaged in what she terms “dream work.”
“Since the arrival of captive Africans to the shores of the Americas (and even on the perilous and death-dealing journey to the New World), Black folks dreamed of a past, present and future unbound to bondage, extraction, exploitation and devaluation,” Lindsey said. “And while Dr. King’s ‘dream’ is perhaps the most cited — though often decontextualized and misconstrued — his dreams were and are part of a constellation of Black freedom dreams.”
In her lecture, Lindsey will expand on what she calls “dream work,” the ongoing effort to actualize the worlds Black communities seek to inhabit.
What: CAAAS MLK Day Event — “Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water: The Enduring Power of Black Freedom Dreams” by Treva B. Lindsey
When: Jan. 16, 4 p.m.
Where: Rice University’s Kraft Hall 130, 6100 Main St.
Registration link: https://events.rice.edu/event/355807-caaas-mlk-day-event