Podcast: WBGO Journal Podcast
Episode: The 39th Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series
Pub date: 2019-02-08

The new Associate Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience and one of the organizers of the upcoming MTW is Salamishah Tillet. Tillet sat down recently with WBGO's News Director Doug Doyle to talk about this year's MTW's theme: The Erotic as Power: Sexuality and the Black Experience . The event begins at 9:30am on Saturday, February 16th at the Paul Robeson Campus Center at Rutgers University-Newark. The annual Black History Month conference will bring to Newark renowned scholars and performers whose pioneering and award-winning work has powerfully shaped America’s understanding of sexuality’s history and its role in contemporary life. The first is E. Patrick Johnson, a scholar/artist who has published and performed widely on race, gender, and sexuality. Following a performance by world renowned violinist, Dr. Melanie Hill, Mr. Johnson will open the MTW conference with an innovative lecture/performance. The day’s other speakers and

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