We write to invite you to the Forty-Fifth annual Marion Thompson Wright (MTW) Lecture Series, one of the nation’s most distinguished and longest-running Black History Month programs. The event will be held on the Rutgers University—Newark campus on Saturday, February 15, 2025. Building on the series’ founding commitment to engage our beloved public, we would behonored for you to speak to our theme of Black transnational activism…. Your work on the Black internationalism and radical activismof Mae Mallory, Audrey Proctor Seniors, and Ethel Azalea Johnson provides an important framework for identifying and understandingthe linkage between Black anti- oppression efforts around the world. We believe your research and writing will offer our cross cultural and multigenerational audience a powerful foundation through which they might examine Black liberation more deeply. Yourdiscussion of Black women’s activism in support of global human rights is powerful and we would welcome a talk about this work with our audience.
Lacey Hunter, Associate Director
Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience AssociateProfessor of Professional Practice, Department of Africana Studies
Jack Tchen, Director
Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience Clement A.Price Professor of Public History & Humanities
Interview by Omari Averette Philips about Mae Mallory The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions
https://newbooksnetwork.com/mae-mallory-the-monroe-defense-committee-and-world-revolutions
Interview by Gerald Horne about Mae Mallory The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions
https://youtu.be/SERfG8oBIFg
The Day Of Remembrance
When: Feb 22, 2022, 5-7 pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvf-yppjgrHNTlY8yf2EtkqdxLk9NHA7XD
February 3rd from 6:30 to 8PM I will talking about my upcoming book Mae Mallory The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-new-york-cbfs-registration-253366274347
Paula Marie Seniors Talk, “Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, the Harlem Nine, and Incarceration as a Political Prisoner,” Schomburg, Columbia University Teachers College, NEH, July 22, 2021
Listed as a “Movement Veteran,” I will be giving the talk "Mae Mallory, Pat Mallory, The New York Desegregation Case, and Mae’s Incarceration as a Political Prisoner for Educational Reform,” for the NEH Summer Institute’s “Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative”
Date: Thursday July 22, 2021
Host: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Place: Virtual
Time: 4-5
Sponsors: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The National Endowment for The Humanities, and Teachers College, Columbia University
I will be on Black Power Media discussing Mae Mallory and The Monroe Defense Committee Monday June 21, 2020, between 9-10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6sB_YPwL7E
“Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions.” Thoughts on Brooklyn Lectures
Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions Lecture at St. Francis College” The book should be out in 2020
Brooklyn College, March 14, 2019 “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions”
A lecture by Dr. Paula Marie Seniors, with Safiya Bandele performing “Warrior Woman-Spoken Word Inspired by Mae Mallory.
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2019
Time: 2:15-3:30
Location: Occidental Lounge, Student Center, Brooklyn College
St. Francis College, March 12, 2019: Historian Dr. Paula Marie Seniors (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Virginia Tech) discusses the 1961 case of self-defense advocate Mae Mallory and the Monroe Defense Committee.
QUOTED BY JASMINE SANDERS IN “A BLACK LEGACY WRAPPED UP IN FUR,” THE NEW YORK TIMES "But there is a sense among many black women that this broader, cultural disavowal of fur has coincided with our increased ability to purchase it. (Or as Paula Marie Seniors, a historian and professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech, reported her mother saying: “As soon as black women could afford to buy mink coats, white society and white women said fur was all wrong, verboten, passé.”) For women like my mother and grandmother, my aunts and my sisters, a fur coat is more than a personal luxury item. It is an important investment."
Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions Talks
At St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York on March 12, 2019 and Brooklyn College on March 14, 2019
Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women & Girls
Virginia Humanitites
Tue. Nov. 20 12:00pm
145 Ednam Drive Charlottesville, VA
Two-time Virginia Humanities residential Fellow and associate professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech, Paula Marie Seniors was an editor of the recently published collection of essays, poetry, and art, Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls.
The collection explores how First Lady Michelle Obama gradually expanded and broadened her role by engaging in social, political and economic activities which directly and indirectly impacted the lives of the American people, especially young women.
The book, released by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2018, uses interdisciplinary evaluations through several media, including recipes like those of Suzannah Grace Sese-khalid Jones who contributed “Recipes for Michelle;” and poetry by artist/activist Verna Hampton who wrote the entry, “Michelle’s Arms.”
Join Seniors, Jones, and Hampton for a discussion of their work on the collection and the lasting legacy of Michelle Obama’s time as First Lady, especially for women and girls.
I will be giving the talk "Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions," Challenging Erasures: Re-inscribing Black Women's History in New York. Sponsored by Dr. Robyn C. Spencer, The Endowed Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Brooklyn College.
https://blkwomeninny.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/mae-mallory/
Date: March 14, 2019
Time: 2:15-3:30 pm
Place: Brooklyn College
Recently Published with contributions by friends, colleagues, and former graduate and undergraduate students: Yasmine Huggins, Rachelle Brunn-Bevel, Deidre Hill Butler,Duchess Miriam Harris,Avi Thomas, Carole Boyce Davies, Suzzannah Grace Sesekhalid, Daveisha Gibson, Verna Hampton, Kristin Richardson
Recent and Upcoming Events
My talk: "Red Moon, Bleeding Moon"Cole and Johnson’s The Red Moon"
Place: University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Date: March 16, 2018
Time: 10Am
"Celebrating God’s Trombones:African American Cadences and Culture Symposium"
Organized by 1952 Distinguished Scholar Noelle Morissette, PhD, Associate Professor of English University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Fellows Talk: "Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions"
Place: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 145 Ednam Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Date: May 9 2017
Time: 12-2
Lunch provided by the Foundation
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