<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25px;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="source sans pro, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class=""><a href="https://www.huntington.org/events/black-matter" class="">https://www.huntington.org/events/black-matter</a></span></font></h2><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="source sans pro, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><h2 style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px; line-height: 25px;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: "source sans pro", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class="">Black Matter</span></strong></h2><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "source sans pro", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class=""><em class="">Wed., Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.</em><br class="">Namwali Serpell, professor of literature at Harvard, author of <em class="">The Old Drift</em>, and recent recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science fiction novel published in the UK, discusses the origins of afrofuturism. <a href="https://huntington.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e49582161b2d45e4940667719&id=51a5e420e4&e=41148f8c5c" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(218, 96, 85); text-decoration-line: none;" class="">Free</a></span></span><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dr. Cathy Thomas<br class="">(she/her/hers)<br class="">UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow<br class="">UC Riverside, Creative Writing<br class=""><a href="mailto:cathy.thomas@ucr.edu" class="">cathy.thomas@ucr.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://cathythomas.academia.edu" class="">cathythomas.academia.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://blackartistsforfreedom.com" class="">blackartistsforfreedom.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">“If you are silent about your pain, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">they’ll kill you </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">and say you enjoyed </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">it.” - Zora Neale Hurston</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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