[Please note that this is a six-day seminar running Monday to Sunday.]

Presenters : Dr. Komozi Woodard

For : Advanced writers who are engaged in writing about the Black freedom struggle: historically, politically, economically, spiritually or culturally.

Description : Each participant is expected to present for critique a draft chapter that is part of a larger thesis on the economic, political, cultural, etc. aspects of the Black Revolt or related topics. The seminar will be headquartered in a pleasant, rented house with an intimate back yard and will include 10-12 writers, plus two writing mentors, Komozi Woodard and Jean Theoharis. 

Preparation : In advance of the seminar, participants will send each other a draft chapter to be critiqued.

About Dr. Komozi Woodard : He is a professor of American History, Public Policy & Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Before becoming a professor, Woodard was managing editor of both Black NewArk and Unity & Struggle newspapers, of the Black NewArk radio program at station WNJR, and of Children’s Express, a children’s journalism program with an internationally syndicated column. Professor Woodard has been a reviewer of academic manuscripts for such publishers as the University of North Carolina Press, the University of Massachusetts Press and Johns Hopkins University Press as well as history journals. And his articles have added to several encyclopedias on civil rights, black freedom, the arts and Islam, including the Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Woodard has written and edited the following recent books: A Nation Within A Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics; Black Power Movement, Part 1, Amiri Baraka: from Black Arts to Black Radicalism; Groundwork; Freedom North. He is currently editing Women in the Black Revolt.

About Dr. Jeanne Theoharis : Dr. Theoharis is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York  She is the co-author of Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform; Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America; Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 and These Yet to Be United States: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in America Since 1945.