Tuesday, February 21
Black History Month
Isabel Wilkerson, Author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”
Metropolitan CampusIsabel Wilkerson is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of American journalism and
was the first black American to win for individual reporting. Inspired by her own parents’ migration, she devoted fifteen years to the research and writing of this book. She interviewed more than 1200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the relocation of an entire people in “The Warmth of Other Suns.” For more information, go to www.tri-c.edu/events or call 216-987-4772.