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Community Teach-Inโ€”Message From Exile: Why I, A Black Studies Professor, Fled the United States

  • Cloverdale Community League 9411 97 Avenue Northwest Edmonton, AB, T6C 4N4 Canada (map)

๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†, ๐—๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿณ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ
๐Ÿณ-๐Ÿต ๐—ฃ๐—  ๐— ๐——๐—ง
๐—–๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ฒ
๐Ÿต๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ ๐Ÿต๐Ÿณ ๐—”๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐˜„๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—”๐—•

This community teach-in will explore what led Yannick Giovanni Marshall to leave a secure academic position, what it reveals about the shrinking space for dissent, and how we might relocate and preserve critical thought beyond the reach of institutional compromise and state-sponsored erasure. It draws from Dr. Marshall's forthcoming book, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), a history of Black insurgency, and from his recent essay in Al Jazeera, โ€œUniversities v Protest: A Letter from a Lesser Alumnusโ€, about the student protests at Columbia University.

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Yannick Giovanni Marshall is a faculty member at California Institute of Arts, USA. An academic and scholar of African Studies, Africana Studies, and Black Studies, he holds an MA in African American Studies and a PhD in Africana Studies from Columbia University, USA. Marshall has published two collections of poetry, regularly contributes editorials and articles to Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Black Perspectives, and has given numerous interviews on race, power, and policing. His writing can be found at yannickgiovannimarshall.net.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜Š๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ด, ๐˜™๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ข, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜’๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต, ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ, ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข.