You are invited to attend the upcoming staged reading, led by Ruth Shiferaw ’21, of W.E.B. Du Bois’ powerful remarks at a 1929 debate with eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard. If you are interested in learning more about this debate, take a look at the article about the event that The New Yorker published in 2019: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist
The event is designed to celebrate Du Bois words and voice. The event will take place over Zoom, supplemented with a YouTube livestream (if we run over 300 attendees) during Friday flex on Friday, March 12.
The sign up form to attend this event is forms.gle/wEtcwYux5TatwE9P7 In order to receive a link, students will have to sign up in advance; the first 300 will receive the Zoom link and the rest will be on YouTube livestream. Please sign up quickly, as we anticipate significant attendance, thanks to teachers offering extra credit for this event. (Freeman)