In recognition of the September 15, 1963, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a white supremacist terrorist attack that resulted in the deaths of four Black girls (Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11), The Auburn Avenue Research Library will present Saying Her Name, from Mary Turner (1918) to Breonna Taylor (2020), Un-Gendering Anti-Black Racial Violence in the United States.

This public lecture, facilitated by Dr. Stephane Dunn, professor and academic program director of the Morehouse College Cinema, Television, & Emerging Media Studies program (CTEMS), will examine the marginalized history of racially motivated violence as experienced by Black women in the United States. Dismantling entrenched gendered public discourses and collective
outrage, that center the victimization of Black males, Dr. Dunn’s lecture will foreground the lived experiences and violent deaths of innocent Black women, crafting a more comprehensive narrative on racial violence in America.