UMass Amherst hosts Toni Morrison, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sonia Sanchez, February 13

Sonia Sanchez

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, singer and social activist Bernice Reagon Johnson and poet and playwright Sonia Sanchez will convene to discuss Black Women in the Arts in the 21st Century at UMass Amherst on Thursday, February 13 (7-9:30pm).

POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

Hosted by the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, the event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:15 pm.

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A bench by the road

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Morrison endorses Obama

"Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace--that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom."

--Toni Morrison

Famously--some would say, infamously--known for her admiring declaration that Bill Clinton was America's first Black president, Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has now endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President. Read her complete endorsement letter here.