No Struggle No Progress: Educator & Activist Howard Fuller in Conversation with Mark Anthony Neal | 10/16

No Struggle No Progress: Howard Fuller’s Activism at Duke and Beyond
Thursday, Oct. 16, 201412:00 – 1:15 p.m. Forum for Scholars and Publics – 011 Old ChemLight lunch will be served.
Join us on October 16, 2014, noon-1:15, for a discussion with Howard Fuller, moderated by Mark Anthony Neal. Drawing from his recently published memoir,  No Struggle No Progress: A Warrior’s Life from Black Power to Education Reform , Professor Fuller will discuss his experiences working for racial justice and radical social change, from his days as a young activist in North Carolina in the 1960s to his current engagement with the school choice movement.Dr. Howard Fuller is Distinguished Professor of Education and Founder/Director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University. Among his many leadership positions in the field of education, he has served as the Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, Dean of General Education at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, and Senior Fellow with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Black Alliance for Educational Options and of Milwaukee Collegiate Academy. You can follow him on Twitter at @HowardLFuller Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University. He is the author of several books including the recent Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (NYU Press) and the co-editor of That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition.  You can follow him on Twitter at @NewBlackMan .