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RIT Expressions of King’s Legacy: Nikole Hannah-Jones

The Rochester Institute of Technology is pleased to invite you to join them for their 41st annual Expressions of King’s Legacy featuring keynote speaker Nikole Hannah-Jones.
This event will not be live streamed.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times. She also serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she is founding the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and this year she opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her BA in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Performances will also take place including RIT student Daniel Aisogun, spoken word artist and the RIT Gospel Choir.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Book Talk: The Light in Hidden Places

In honor of UN Holocaust Remembrance Day, please join the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College, Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, and Buffalo Jewish Federation for a Book Talk and Q&A with #1 New York Times best-selling author Sharon Cameron, who wrote The Light in Hidden Places.
AtCanisius College Regis Room / Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center on Hughes Avenue. Off street and street parking available.
If you’re unable to attend in person, join on Zoom here. Questions? Contact Lauren Bloomberg
About The Light in Hidden Places:
A historical novel based on the experiences of Righteous Among the Nations Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII with the help of her younger sister, Helena Podgorska.
Reception and book signing (with books to purchase) to follow.

WNY Women’s March 2023: PEACE IS WORTH IT!

You are invited to join the WNY Peace Center on Sunday, March 26th for our WNY Women’s March beginning at 1:00PM at Niagara Square (downtown Buffalo). After marching to the Buffalo Erie County Public Central Library, we’ll have speakers and performers share in the library’s Ring of Knowledge while themed activities are available for children in the kid’s area.
This year, we hope to bring awareness to international women’s rights, environmental sustainability, and peaceful negotiations in war-torn countries. Please join our efforts to uplift these important social justice discussions.