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Meeting

Saturday, February 11, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Growing Up in and Out of Islam”

“I grew up a Muslim, as my parents did before me and as their parents did before them. The story of my life takes me through growing up in the world of post-9/11 America and frequently being bullied.”

“I never felt like I belonged as either an Arab/Muslim or an American. I just desperately wanted to fit in with anyone who would take me; I was rejected at every turn.”

Tuesday, January 31, 6:50 p.m., Mershon Auditorium. 1871 N. High St.

Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author, who emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Known for books like Women, Race & Class, she has advocated for gender equity, prison reform, and alliances across color lines.

Monday, January 23, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: screening of film “Freedom Summer”

During the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks in 1964, known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist and segregated states.

Thursday, January 12, 6:30-8pm, Hale Hall, Rm. 110-B, 154 W. 12th Ave.

Learn and dialogue with professors of law and bilingual activist-scholars on Thursday, January 12, 6:30pm., in Hale Hall. Rm. 110-B, 154 W. 12th Ave.

Topics will include:

• Pathways to college for undocumented Latinx high schoolers and transfer students

• Legal rights for Latinx family members who are Dreamers or Undocumented

• Safe spaces on the college campus and beyond