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DESCRIPTION:Cartoonist Keith Knight takes a deep dive on 20 artists who ins
 pired him to use his art to address social issues. Folks like Ollie Harrin
 gton\, Langston Hughes\, Octavia Butler\, Oscar Michaux\, James Baldwin\, 
 alongside current artists like Dread Scott\, Public Enemy\, and Fly.\n\nKe
 ith Knight is a cartoonist and author of the comic strips The K Chronicles
 \, (Th)ink\, and The Knight Life. As a public speaker\, Knight presents co
 mic strip slideshows addressing racial illiteracy and police brutality and
  the role it has played since the early years of the United States. He is 
 a co-creator and co-writer of Hulu’s streaming series Woke\, based on Th
 e K Chronicles and Knight’s life. Knight is part of a generation of Af
 rican-American artists who were raised on hip-hop\, and infuse their work 
 with urgency\, edge\, humor\, satire\, politics\, and race. His art has ap
 peared in various publications\, including the New Yorker\, the Wash
 ington Post\, Daily KOS\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Medium.com\, Ebony\, E
 SPN the Magazine\, L.A. Weekly\, MAD Magazine\, and the Funny Ti
 mes.
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LOCATION:Erb Memorial Union (EMU)\, Redwood Auditorium
SUMMARY:“The Intersection of Art and Social Justice”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/keith_knight_lecture
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
CATEGORIES:Free
CATEGORIES:Diversity and Multiculturalism
CATEGORIES:Black and African American
CATEGORIES:Heritage Months
CATEGORIES:Black History Month
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