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The 1619 Project Symposium: Changing the Narrative in 2020

Location: St. Luke United Methodist Church, 568 Montgomery Ave. Bryn Mawr, PA

Keynote Speaker: Maghan Keita, PhD
Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova
University: Dr. Keita’s teaching and research focuses on African, African-American, European and World Histories, political economy and Development Studies. He is the author of numerous works in his area of specialty, including Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx (Oxford University Press, 2000).

“Through centuries of black resistance and protest, we have helped the country to live up to its founding ideals...without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different-it might not be a democracy at all.” Nikole Hannah- Jones

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Sponsors: POWER Main Line, Main Line NAACP, Central Baptist Church, St. Luke United Methodist Church, Standing in the Gap Fellowship of Mt.Calvary Baptist Church, Sisters of SalaamShalom, Beth David Reform Congregation, Gladwyne Presbyterian Church, Baha’i Community of the Main Line, H-CAN, (and others to come)