Events at Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts

Allison Morris/Nathan Smith Joint Voice Recital

CONNECTING THE GENERATIONS

Sunday, April 24th

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM      Sunday Worship Service

                                      Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts, Parmer Hall

Joint Clarinet Recital

 

Amelia Weller and Oliver Paris Joint First-Year French Horn Recital

April 13, 2 p.m.
High Center, High Foundation Recital Hall

Program

2023 American Democracy Lecture. Keisha Blain: "Black Women & the Struggle for Human Rights in U.S. History. Date: October 26, 2023, Location: Parmer Hall, The Calvin and Janet High Center, Time: 7:00 pm, Cost: Free tickets are required for this event. To reserve, please contact the Messiah University Box Office at 717-691-6036 option #1 or online at messiah.edu/tickets. Lecture will be followed by a Q&A session, reception and book signing

2023 American Democracy Lecture
Keisha Blain: "Black Women & the Struggle for Human Rights in U.S. History

Keisha Blain, Ph.D., is professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University. She is a nationally respected scholar, historian and human rights advocate. A regular columnist for MSNBC, she has written for the public on education, housing discrimination, Juneteenth and the importance of recent movies, “Till” and “The Woman King.”

Blain is the author of several books including, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom” and “Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.” She served as president of the African American Intellectual History Society from 2017 to 2021 and has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including being a Guggenheim Fellow (2022) and a Carnegie Fellow (2022).

https://www.messiah.edu/homepage/2805/2016_american_democracy_lecture