Name: From Baldwin to Beyoncé: A Complicated American Love
Start: 2026-01-19T10:45:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-19T12:05:00-05:00
Location: Pettengill Hall, Room G21

From Baldwin to Beyoncé: A Complicated American Love

Martin Luther King Jr Planning Committee

Pettengill Hall, Room G21

This workshop puts Beyoncé in conversation with James Baldwin as Black artists and creators who explore their relationship to and identification with America. Participants and facilitators will examine media from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour where the artist reckons with popular imagery and conceptualizations of “Country music” and engage with an essay from Baldwin’s body of work reflecting his experiences as a queer, Black expatriate. Through reflection and conversation, we explore the roles of our love and anger in the struggle for justice.Presenters: Danny Chin, Director of Alumni and Parent Equity and Inclusion Programs and Nate Menifield, Equity and Inclusion Program ManagerSponsors: Advancement and Office of Equity and Inclusions Office

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