This evening, Benesemon Simmons will be in conversation with Dr. Joshua M. Myers. They will discuss We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 and Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition

We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university.

Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of western political thought, modern capitalism, and changing meanings of race.

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This conversation is a part of DBLAC's Fall 2022 Reading Series and is supported by the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education and Center for Urban Education.

DBLAC (Digital Black Lit and Composition) is a learning community and an intellectual project committed to Black knowledge-making and sharing. DBLAC operates from a multilayered understanding and enactment of community that exists within the academy, across institutions, and with communities beyond institutions directly connected to DBLAC. In every space, the support of Black scholarship is central. Through signature programs that offer writing help, mentorship, networking, and resource-pooling, DBLAC creates public spaces that promote undisciplined communication, not limited to any disciplinary area of study, through the use of Black feminist and communal practices.

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