{"id":126670,"date":"2020-09-08T16:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=126670"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:05:02","slug":"garza-manoa-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/08\/garza-manoa-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter co-founder to deliver 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Alicia Garza helped establish the Black Lives Matter Global Network.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The civil rights activist who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement has been selected as an endowed chair at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa. Alicia Garza, a special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and principal at the Black Futures Lab will headline a live presentation “The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart” on September 24, at 12 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n

The keynote address is named after Garza\u2019s first book set to be published in October 2020. In 2013, her Facebook post after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin helped inspire the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. She assisted with the establishment of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, which has grown to include 40 chapters in four countries. Update<\/strong>: Garza made the TIME<\/em> 100 list, along with her BLM<\/abbr> co-founders, which was announced on September 22, 2020.<\/p>\n

“Garza is today\u2019s leader for a better tomorrow. She has led in the most challenging of eras, forcing us to address the uncompleted work of civil and human rights in our midst. I commend the selection committee for recruiting Alicia Garza—I am very much looking forward to learning from her and I know we will all be encouraged and inspired by her message and ongoing work,” said 糖心视频<\/abbr> law school Dean Camille Nelson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Garza was selected to serve as the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa for fall 2020. She will be in virtual residence for the month of September, participating in a variety of events with students, faculty and local activists. The chair is hosted in the 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Department of American Studies<\/a> in the College of Arts and Humanities and the William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> and was created to bring significant public figures to Hawaiʻi<\/span> to foster public discourse regarding democratic ideals and civic engagement.<\/p>\n

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