Join us at The Cambridge Main Public Library for a Teach-In and Benefit for Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition on February 12, 2026 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Contributors to our current issue on Sudan, Fatin Abbas, Alex De Waal, Nisrin Elamin, and Alden Young, as well as representatives of the local Sudanese community, will speak and discuss the present-day conflict in Sudan,…
Leah Penniman’s essay “Black Land Matters: Climate Solutions in Black Agrarianism,” featured in CLIMATE T133, was selected to appear in PUSHCART PRIZE XLVIII, the 2024 Edition, which will be published in December, 2023 and distributed by WW Norton Co. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm received the added honor of serving as a contributing editor…
In anticipation of her delivery of the inaugural Rajat Neogy Lecture, Transition will be reading Maryse Condé’s iconic novel SEGU which follows generations of the Traore family in the flourishing eighteenth-century kingdom of Segu in Africa. Segu’s people, the Bambara, “are guided by their griots and priests…their lives ruled by the elements. But even their…
The week of events begins on Monday, April 17, with a roundtable discussion of Maryse Condé‘s SEGU. Date/Time: April 17th, 2023, 12:00pm Location: Hutchins Center Seminar Room, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R, Cambridge, MA In-person & on Zoom. Lunch will be provided. Registration Required – CLICK HERE to register On Wednesday, Maryse Condé will…
