October 11th, 2014
Conversations on Self-Determination – God and Medicine
Black Radical Brooklyn: God and Medicine
Saturday, October 11
3:30 – 5:30pm
Investigate the contested past of Black bodies and Black souls. Speakers tackle the health effects of discrimination while linking wellness to African-American spiritual traditions.
Moderators: Dr. Samuel Roberts, Director, Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS), Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health), and author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation.
Speakers: Dr. Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, and Dr. Obery Hendricks, author of The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic.
Performer: Black Women’s Taiko drummers, Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center
Presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Join us every Saturday at Weeksville Heritage Center (158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) for a free series of Conversations on Self-Determination, presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gather on the lawn for afternoon discussions on main exhibition themes Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine. Free and open to the public.
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