Hello Brothers! This event is divided into two parts, resulting in to different locations. If you are interested in attending one over the other, please state that in your comment. If you are attending both parts, just write both! Thank you so much! DESCRIPTION: Craft Talk — 4:15 p.m., Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West Addition Conversation/Q&A : 7:30 p.m., Campus Center West Auditorium Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the New York Times bestseller, So You Want to Talk About Race (paperback 2019), a frank how-to manual for engaging in conversation about one of the most sensitive issues of our time. The Salon reviewer said, “Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt…. It’s for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race.” Named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, Oluo has written about race, economics, feminism and social justice for TIME, The Washington Post, Elle, and The Guardian. In honor of the 50th Anniversary of UAlbany’s Educational Opportunities Program (EOP), celebrating a half century of providing opportunity for academic achievement and personal advancement among the economically and educationally disadvantaged. Also cosponsored by “400 Years of Inequality” at UAlbany, part of a national observance of the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America — in 1619 at Jamestown. Support provided by the Diversity Transformation Fund through UAlbany’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. POP OUT!