Join us for a riveting conversation moderated by Provost Gillespie about Black experience in segregated Winston-Salem as a precursor to the Mellon-sponsored Universities and Neighborhoods conference November 11-12th.  Distinguished scholars Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Associate Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College and author of Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods (2019) and Wanda Hendricks, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at University of South Carolina, author of The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid (2022) will talk about Black family, community, resistance, and opportunity in segregated Winston-Salem through global Black activist Madie Hall Xuma's early years. The event will be held at Pugh Auditorium in Benson University Center on November 2nd from 4:30-5:30pm.