NORTHAMPTON – As part of a daylong symposium on feminism, race and transnationalism, two leaders from the Black Lives Matter movement will speak at Smith College on Friday at 8 p.m.
“Black Lives Matter: A Dialogue on the Movement” will feature Janaya Khan, co-founder and international ambassador of the Toronto chapter, and Opal Tometi, co-founder of the movement and executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
The talk will be held at the college’s John M. Greene Hall and is open to the public. Barbara Ransby, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will moderate the session.
Free tickets are required and will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Campus Center 106 for general admission and UMass students. Students from Hampshire, Amherst and Mount Holyoke colleges can pick up tickets all week in their student activities offices.
Any tickets remaining at the time of the event will be available at the John M. Greene box office. People without tickets are welcome to watch the event via a live video feed to Stoddard Auditorium.
For the symposium’s full schedule, visit https://www.smith.edu/meridians/schedule.htm.