Event Host: Barnett Center and African & African American Studies Community Extension Center
Short Description: Cleo Manago discusses how to sustain activism through filmmaking.
Cleo Manago discusses how to sustain activism through filmmaking. CEO/founder of multiple organizations including Black Men’s Xchange, the nation's oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to the advocacy, affirmation, education and defense of diverse Black males, and Black Life Matters Media Company, for the production of activist-educational documentaries with projects translated to both Spanish and Portuguese. Manago has a doctorate in theology, is community faculty at Charles Drew University of Science and Medicine and is a contributing panelist to TV One’s News One Now with Roland Martin.
I Am A Man: Black Manhood & Sexual Diversity
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 6-8 p.m. at the African & African American Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave.
Community panel: Professor Terrell Strayhorn, Associate Professor Simone Drake and Associate Professor Townsand Price-Spratlen
In My OWN Image
Thursday, Feb. 18, 6-8 p.m. at the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts & Enterprise
Co-sponsors: The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center For Integrated Arts and Enterprise, African & African American Studies Community Extension Center, Multicultural Center & the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male