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Lyon College will continue its series of Black History Month events on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. with a presentation titled “Anti-Racism: Cuba, the United States and the Pursuit of Racial Equality” by Lyon College Assistant Professor of History Dr. Alexis Baldacci.

The free lecture will be open to the public and presented in the Nucor Auditorium of the Lyon Business and Economics Building on the Lyon College campus, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville.

“At times allies and at others enemies, the histories of Cuba and the United States have been deeply entwined since the 19th century,” said Dr. Baldacci. “This talk explores connection points in the pursuit of racial equality in these two countries from the 1890s to the 2020s.”

Beginning with U.S. intervention in the Cuban independence struggle in 1898, the presentation will explore the different approaches each place took to ending racism in the 1960s and 1970s, and end with a look at the role of race and injustice in recent protest movements in both places.

Dr. Baldacci is a historian who specializes on the Cold War in Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2018, and she has published and presented nationally on Cuban youth, food and consumer culture. She is preparing her book manuscript, “I, The Revolution: Austerity, Identity, and Desire in Cuba, 1971-1991,” for publication and she teaches courses on Latin American and World History at Lyon College.

Additional Black History Month events at Lyon College include the following:

Black Student Association 50th Anniversary Gala

Saturday, Feb. 117 p.m. at Patterson Dining Hall, Edwards Commons

Lyon College, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville

Tickets are available here: https://alumni.lyon.edu/events/bsa-50th-anniversary-celebration/tickets

Open Mic NightMonday, Feb. 13

7 p.m. at Maxfield Room, Edwards Commons

Lyon College, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville

Lecture: “African Americans and the American Revolution”

Speaker: Dr. Kieran J. O'Keefe, Visiting Assistant Professor of HistoryThursday, Feb. 16

7 p.m. at Nucor Auditorium, Lyon BuildingLyon College, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville

Movie NightMonday, Feb. 20

7 p.m. at Maxfield Room, Edwards CommonsLyon College, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville

Men's Alumni Panel

Thursday, Feb. 23

7 p.m. at Maxfield Room, Edwards CommonsLyon College, 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville

For more information about Black History Month at Lyon College, please contact Pam Palermo at Pamela.Palermo@lyon.edu.

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