About the Program
From the 2012 Harlem Book Fair, a panel discussion on the Emancipation Proclamation. The panelists include, Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, Obery Hendricks, The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic, Farah Jasmine Griffin, 'Who Set You Flowin'?': The African-American Migration Narrative, and Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. The panel is moderated by Christopher Paul Moore, historian and curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Christopher Paul Moore
Christopher Paul Moore is the author or co-author of several books, including Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - The Unsung Heroes of World War II. He is a curator and historian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Nell Irvin Painter
Nell Irvin Painter is an American history professor, emerita at Princeton University. Ms. Painter is the former head of the University's African-American Studies program as well as a former president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. She is the author of numerous books, including Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919. She is currently an artist-in-scholar in residence in the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. For more information, visit nellpainter.com.
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Obery Hendricks
Obery Hendricks is a biblical interpretation professor at the New York Theological Seminary and visiting scholar in the Department of Religion and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University.
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Farah Jasmine Griffin
Farah Jasmine Griffin is an English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies professor at Columbia University. She is the author of If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday and Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever.
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Tanner Colby
Tanner Colby is the author of The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts and Belushi: A Biography. For more information, visit tannercolby.com.
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