{"id":2499,"date":"2020-10-18T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library-test.qc.cuny.edu\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2020-10-18T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T05:58:00","slug":"library-events-on-activism-and-social-justice-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/2020\/10\/18\/library-events-on-activism-and-social-justice-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Events on Activism and Social Justice Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 6, Norka Blackman-Richards, Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/Academics\/SupportPrograms\/Seek\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Percy E. Sutton Seek Program<\/a>&nbsp;at Queens College, moderated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qc-cuny.libcal.com\/event\/6933111\">Fighting&nbsp;for the Future: Political Engagement and Student Leadership<\/a>,&nbsp;a passionate and&nbsp;intellectually vibrant conversation that could not have come at a better time. We thank her and&nbsp;each of our panelists: Aysa Gray, Carmine Couloute, Siddharth Malviya,&nbsp;and Zaire Couloute, who shared&nbsp;their personal journeys as student and community leaders and their hopes and&nbsp;strategies for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/queensmemory\/videos\/398409014617970\/?type=2&amp;amp;theater\">A recording of the event is available here.<\/a><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event was Part 2 of the library&#8217;s series&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qc-cuny.libguides.com\/blog\/Fall-Library-Programs-Will-Explore-Racial-Social-Justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Can We Do Better: Creating a More Just and Inclusive World<\/a>. We&nbsp;hope you&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qc-cuny.libcal.com\/event\/6933134\">join us on November 17<\/a>&nbsp;for the final program, which will focus on issues of power, representation, and inclusion in archives.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 6, Norka Blackman-Richards, Director of the Percy E. Sutton Seek Program at Queens College, moderated Fighting for the Future: Political Engagement and Student Leadership, a passionate and intellectually vibrant conversation that could not have come at a better time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[165,262,167],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-to-cover","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-education-and-community-programs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}