WAY OUT OF NO WAY HUMANITIES SERIES 2022: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal with Dr. Karla FC Holloway and Nnenna Freelon

* A Left of Black & NorthStar Church of the Arts collaboration *

NorthStar Church of the Arts (https://www.northstardurham.com/) presents the first in our Way Out of No Way series with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at NorthStar Church of the Arts.

Dr. Neal will present a Left of Black episode in conversation with Dr. Karla FC Holloway, author of Death in Harlem and critically acclaimed jazz singer, Nnenna Freelon, whose new release Time Traveler is GRAMMY-nominated for this year's Best Jazz Vocal Album.

The event is free and open to the public. Due to the rise in COVID cases, this event will now be live streamed ONLY. Registrants (including anyone who previously registered for in-person) will receive a link to the live stream via email.

Registration: bit.ly/NorthStarWON22

About Northstar 2022 Way Out Of No Way Humanities Series

Eight community engagement presentations from January to August 2022 will include lectures, literary readings, and panel discussions on a variety of topics linked by an overarching theme of creativity in making a Way Out of No Way. The series is co-curated by noted local African American scholars and is made possible in part by the generous support of the NC Humanities Council.

Described as a willingness to press on through difficult circumstances even when the outlook is decidedly bleak, this 8-month celebration of resilience, creativity, advocacy, and determination is in the African American tradition of way-making. Evidence of way-making can be observed in both historic and modern narratives of struggle and triumph. Black American victory stories are more often than not, woven with threads of resistance-thinking and creative workarounds. Embedded history of enslavement, bigotry, and racism as well as institutionalized forms of marginalization have encouraged way-making strategies as a means of survival.

NorthStar received an American Rescue Plan Humanities Grant from North Carolina Humanities, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for this grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act economic stabilization plan.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series, do not necessarily represent those of North Carolina Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.