To a crowd of more than 450 attendees, both in person and online, the 21st Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture, for the second time, hosted distinguished scholar, activist/organizer, teacher, and writer Angela Davis, renowned for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Davis delivered an impassioned plea to listeners on April 4 to know their history, to embrace it, and never, ever, to allow partisan politics to negate it.
The Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum (EWMC) at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago, announces this year’s “Eric Williams ‘School Bags’ Essay Competition.”
This year, the Lecture again hosts distinguished scholar, activist/organizer, teacher, and writer Angela Davis, internationally renowned for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad.
The 20th Eric Williams Memorial Lecture will take place at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2022 at the AT&T Conference Center, University of Texas, Austin (UT). Admission is free and open to the public. The event will also be live-streamed for those unable to attend.