Black History Month Keynote Address by Cole Arthur Riley
Monday, February 24, 2025
6:45pm in Knapp Auditorium
Please join us for the BHM Keynote Address featuring Cole Arthur Riley. A reception and book signing will follow.
The lecture will begin at 6:45pm and will be live-streamed at the ssw.edu website, and the Southwest Facebook page.
Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the NYT bestselling author of This Here Flesh and Black Liturgies. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator.