SLU Bridge Lecture With Guest Tanisha Ford Will Be March 2

02/23/2023

The Bridge Lecture is an annual event bridging Black History Month and Women's History Month. Tanisha C. Ford, Ph.D., will be the guest speaker at this year's event. 

The lecture will be at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, in Davis-Shaughnessy Hall, Room 173. The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is requested. 

This year the lecture is titled "'No More Nickel and Diming:' Black Women's Fundraising and the Real Cost of Racial Justice."  Drawn from her forthcoming book "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement," Ford’s talk will explore the national financial webs of power and influence that fed the civil rights movement and continue to fund social movements today. 

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences Mellon Grant. 

Ford is a native of a small Midwestern city. She enjoys telling the histories of often-overlooked people and places. She is the author of three books: Dressed in Dreams, Liberated Threads, and Black is Beautiful. Ford is writer, researcher, and cultural critic who has forged an international reputation for her research on the history of Black style/fashion + social movements. In 2019, The Root named Ford one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans. She is currently Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches courses on African American history, biography and memoir, and the geopolitics of fashion.