Events in August 2020
-
Writers Bloc Presents Mike Davis, Jon Wiener & Robin Kelley: Watts Rebellion
Writers Bloc Presents Mike Davis, Jon Wiener & Robin Kelley: Watts Rebellion
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Robin Kelley who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Note that August 11 is the 55th anniversary of the start of the Watts Rebellion.
-
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the 1960s
Listen to Harold Meyerson in conversation with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising, as they discuss Los Angeles in the sixties as a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and its lessons for the social justice movements of today.
-
A Conversation on the 55th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion
A Conversation on the 55th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, co-authors of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan and Danny Widener to discuss the upcoming 55th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Uprising hosted by Skylight Books.
-
Protest in L.A. from the Sixties to Today
Protest in L.A. from the Sixties to Today
Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Brenda Stevenson, author of The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots, to discuss the Protest in LA from the Sixties to Today.
Register at Chevalier's Books here.
-
UC-HRI Event with Ananya Roy
UC-HRI Event with Ananya Roy
All times are in PST