(Herkimer, NY \u2013 March 4, 2013) Herkimer County Community College will host a multi-media event with Safiya Bandele presenting<\/p>\n
Ida B. Wells: Warrior for Justice. Bandele will cover the themes in Wells\u2019 life: gender defiance, critical resistance, community organizing and internationalism. The program will be held Tuesday, March 12 from 12:30-1:20 pm in Alumni Hall, room 217 of the McLaughlin College Center<\/p>\n
Bandele talks, chants, dances against a visual backdrop of southern horrors\/lynching and the haunting music of \u201cStrange Fruit.\u201d Her career has spanned 34 years at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, where she served as instructor, Women\u2019s Advocate and Director of the Center for Women\u2019s Development.<\/p>\n
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a journalist, educator, wife, mother, suffragette and internationalist. She is known for her anti-lynching work. At the age of 22, she refused to move to a \u201ccolored car\u201d on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and was forcibly thrown off the train.<\/p>\n
The presentation, sponsored by the College\u2019s Women\u2019s Club, is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Herkimer, NY \u2013 March 4, 2013) Herkimer County Community College will host a multi-media event with Safiya Bandele presenting Ida B. Wells: Warrior for Justice. Bandele will cover the themes in Wells\u2019 life: gender defiance, critical resistance, community organizing and internationalism. The program will be held Tuesday, March 12 from 12:30-1:20 pm in Alumni Hall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-bd1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}