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Postponed: SLU to Host a Discussion Between Author Donna Murch and Christopher Tinson

by Maggie Rotermund
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Update: This event has been postponed and will not take place as planned on March 20. A new date for this conversation will be announced later.  

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ST. LOUIS – Christopher Tinson, Ph.D., chair of the African-American Studies Department at Saint Louis University, will interview writer, historian and professor Donna Murch, Ph.D., on SLU’s campus.

The event will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, March 20. It is free and open to the public.  

Murch, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, will be in conversation with Tinson about her latest work, “Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.”

The book is published by Haymarket Books.

Murch is also the author of “Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California,” with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize.

Event Details

The event is sponsored by the SLU Libraries St. Louis Literary Award Programs, the Division of Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement (DICE) and the School of Education.

Saint Louis University

Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic institutions. Rooted in Jesuit values and its pioneering history as the first university west of the Mississippi River, SLU offers more than 15,200 students a rigorous, transformative education of the whole person. At the core of the University’s diverse community of scholars is SLU’s service-focused mission, which challenges and prepares students to make the world a better, more just place.