October 29, 2025
Online book talk with author Professor Martha Biondi (Northwestern), We are the Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation (2025)
Discussant Prof. Peter Alegi (MSU)
Special Guest: Prexy Nesbitt
Wednesday, October 29
3 – 4:30pm (virtual)
About the author:
Martha Biondi is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History. A scholar of 20th century African American history, Biondi is the author of the award-winning To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City and The Black Revolution on Campus, which tells the story of the Black student movement of the late 1960s and the rise of Black Studies and affirmative action. Hew new book We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation describes solidarity organizing for southern African national liberation struggles.