Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

This community-driven project, entitled Broadcasting Hope: Evoking the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida, will produce a six-part podcast that will air on 89.1/90.1 NPR News and Talk and publish alongside a multimedia series on WUFT.org. The first event will be hosted at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center on February 16 to share a pilot of episode one, which explores the roots of African heritage in Florida, colonial roots, and its legacies and the practice of decolonizing representations. The event will also be joined by keynote speaker Leslie Harris, a professor of history and African American Studies at Northwestern University, who will give a presentation “Transforming University-Community Relationships: Working with Hopefulness.” Register here.