Photos from Africana Studies 2025 Spring Colloquium: Modern Day Abolitionism

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The panelists listen intently to an audience question.

Enjoy these photos from The Center for Africana Studies 2025 Spring Colloquium, entitled Modern Day Abolitionism: Carcerality and Black Radical Resistance through Grassroots Organizing, Prison Activism, and Spiritual Liberation. This event featured a number of incredible speakers including Timothy Malone, Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Laura McTighe.

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Prof. Herman Beavers addresses the audience as he introduces the event.
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The guest panelists watch Prof. Herman Beavers as he introduces the event.
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Panelists Timothy Malone, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Laura McTighe, and Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad sit behind a table, looking toward Dr. Beavers who is off-screen.

 

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Prof. Beavers speaks to the audience.
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Timothy Malone speaks to the audience while displaying a slide from his presentation.
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Timothy Malone speaks to the audience while displaying a slide from his presentation.
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Audience members listen intently and write notes during Spring colloquium presentation.
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Young students in the audience watch and listen intently.
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Audience members listen intently during Spring colloquium presentation.

 

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Timothy Malone speaks to the audience after reading his pass
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Pelot-Hobbs, Laura McTighe, and Vesely-Flad watch as Malone delivers his presentation.
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Dr. Beavers watches as Malone delivers his presentation.
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The audience listens as Beavers introduces the next speaker.

 

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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs introduces her presentation.
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs delivers her presentation.

 

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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs delivers her lecture as her fellow panelists watch.
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs presents a slide on improving law enforcement relations in New Orleans.
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs presents slides with a safety illustration.
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs presents a slide from her presentation involving a public demonstration.
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Laura McTighe opens up her presentation as her fellow panelists watch.
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Laura McTighe addresses the audience.
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Laura McTighe discusses a slide featuring her colleagues with a title "Safe Sex Ed".
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Laura McTighe discusses a slide displaying a newspaper clipping focused on the group "Women With A Vision"
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Laura McTighe discusses a slide displaying her colleague looking throughout a burned room after surviving a bombing done on her home.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad introduces her presentation as her fellow colleagues watch.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad introduces her presentation as her fellow colleagues watch.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad addresses her fellow panelists as she delivers her presentation.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad speaks to the audience.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad displays a quote from James Baldwin during her presentation.
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad speaks to the audience while her fellow panelists watch.
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An audience member asks the panelists a question.
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The panelists listen intently to an audience question.
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Timothy Malone answers an audience question.
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Timothy Malone answers an audience question.
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Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs answers a question.
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Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs answers a question.
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Students in the audience listen intently.
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Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs answers a question.
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Dr. Laura McTighe answers a question
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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad answers a question.