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Join us for The Public Square with Dr. Sherri Williams & Dr. Meredith Clark on how the digital labor of African Americans has shaped movements, media, and politics.
How the Digital Labor of African Americans has shaped Movements, Media, and Politics will take place at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Attendees will have the opportunity to dive into the conversation during the Q&A following the discussion.
The Public Square is one of DC Public Library's signature speaker series, presented in partnership with the DC Public Library Foundation.
Public Squares, like public libraries, are "third places" in our communities. They are social spaces that help us cultivate our sense of belonging outside of our first place, our homes and our second place, our workplace. They are spaces that foster good conversation and connection, where we can both learn from others and share our own knowledge.
Through moderated discussions, The Public Square series realizes this idea of libraries as a third place by connecting leaders and innovators with the public to talk about the next phase of their work or scholarship.
For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.
This program is being support by the DC Public Library Foundation.
The DC Public Library Foundation partners with the DC Public Library to enhance Washington, DC’s public libraries, bringing private philanthropy together with government support to ensure that our libraries deliver the highest quality of service to the District’s residents. With the help of many generous people, the Foundation provides educational programs for children and youth, workforce development training, cultural events, and collection enhancements for DC’s libraries.
Dr. Sherri Williams is a journalism and media studies professor who teaches classes on race and representation at American University in Washington D.C. Her research centers media portrayals of Black women. Williams believes that storytelling can be a tool for liberation. She teaches her students to produce stories that center the marginalized. Williams is the author of Black Social Television: How Black Twitter Changed Television and a forthcoming book on race and reporting.
Williams was the 2021 National Association of Black Journalists’ Journalism Educator of the Year. In 2024 she was awarded the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Best Teaching Practices Award. She worked as a journalist for a decade, including at the Associated Press, before she transitioned into academia. Williams earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. She is a proud graduate of the historically Black university Jackson State University. Williams is a native of Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her/hers), is an associate professor of race and political communication in the School of Journalism & Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power. She is the author of “We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and Digital Counternarratives,” published by Oxford University Press. In 2015, she was named to The Root 100 as one of the most influential African Americans in the country. Before becoming a professor, Meredith was a newspaper journalist in Tallahassee, Florida, and Raleigh, North Carolina. She was most recently featured in the Hulu docuseries, "Black Twitter: A People's History."
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Lecture | Black History Month | Author Talk |
