African American Women and Social Change - Stages of Liberation

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Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Professor Emeritus of History, Colby College and Associate Pastor, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge will speak

Stevens Center on the Common (North Andover Historical Society)

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Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes will speak on &quot;African American Women and Social Change - Stages of Liberation&quot; as part of the North Andover Celebrates Black History Month 2023 Program series. Her lecture will also focus on poet Phillis Wheatley and social activist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. Dr. Gilkes is the author of the book , If It Wasn&#x27;t for the Women: Black Women&#x27;s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community, and will bring copies of the book for sale and to sign. Musical Opening by Minister Michael Belcher of Andover Baptist Church.Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (Pronounced &quot;Jillks&quot;) is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor Emerita of African-American Studies and Sociology at Colby College (Waterville, Maine). An ordained Baptist minister, she is an assistant pastor for special projects at the Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has served as visiting faculty at several seminaries and schools of divinity, most recently Chicago Theological Seminary. She will also serve as a Distinguished Professor, Community Liaison, and Research Consultant for the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (formerly Hartford Seminary). She holds degrees in sociology from Northeastern University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), has pursued graduate theological studies at Boston University&#x27;s School of Theology, and has received an honorary Doctor of Divinity (D. D.) from Ursinus College. In addition to her book, If It Wasn&#x27;t for the Women: Black Women&#x27;s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community, she has published articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes on race and ethnicity, the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, and African American religion. She has also published sermons in several journals and edited volumes. Until the pandemic, she was &quot;Dr. Cheryl&quot; on Colby College&#x27;s radio station where she hosted a gospel music radio show, &quot;The Uncloudy Day,&quot; for 19 years. Since the pandemic she has contributed several opinion pieces to Religion News Service and has written the introduction to the fiftieth anniversary publication of James Cone’s book, The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation. This program is supported in part by a grant from the North Andover Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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