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Lawrence Ware, Teaching Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Africana Studies

		Philosophy Dept. Office: 255 Murray Hall Center for Africana Studies Office: 103 Life Sciences East Philosophy Dept. Telephone: 405-744-2790 Center for Africana Studies Telephone: 405-744-7692 Email:  lawrence.ware@okstate.edu Summer 2020 Office Hours: By appointment via Face-time and Skype.
	Lawrence Ware is co-director of the Africana Studies Program and Teaching Assistant Professor and Diversity Coordinator in the Department of Philosophy. He is a contributing writer to Slate Magazine, The New York Times and The Root. He has been a commentator on race and politics for the Huffington Post Live, NPR, and TV One. Lawrence has taught and lectured across the country on issues ranging from race to economic policy. He organizes the Critical Conversations series, which hosts a number of events on campus related to race, gender, and religion.

EDUCATION

• BA, University of Central Oklahoma
• MA in Philosophy, Oklahoma State University

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

• CBC Tapestry Podcast, November, 2017
• WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show Podcast, July 2017 

SPRING 2018 EVENTS

• January 15th: Keynote, John Brown University
• January 20th: Keynote, Harvard Chapel
• February 22nd: Keynote, Tulsa Community College
• February 26th: Keynote, Oklahoma Conference of Churches 2018 Day at the Capitol
• March 5 & 6: Public Lecture, Kennesaw State University
• March 28th: Keynote, UCO: Black Male Initiative

PAST EVENTS

• Panelist for Take Root Annual Conference at the University of Oklahoma, February 2017
• Public Lecture on Social Diversity and Oklahoma Education for Leadership Oklahoma, February 2017
• Black History Public Lecture at Northeastern Oklahoma College, February 2017
• Keynote at Pittsburgh State University's Black History Gospel Celebration, February 2017
• MLK and Epistemic Violence keynote at Langston University, January 2015
• Black Nationalism and #BlackLivesMatter keynote at the Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government, February 2015
• The Theological Origins of White Supremacy at The Conference on Progressive Christianity in February 2015
• Black Christianity and Black Resistance at The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Washington DC in May, 2015
• The Confederate Flag and Epistemic Ignorance at OU in October, 2015
• Lecture on Black Leadership, Langston University
• Lecture on Intersectionality and #BlackLivesMatter: Race, Gender and Resistance

UPCOMING BOOK

• "Ballad of an American, A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson," Rutgers University Press, October 2020

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "A Father Confronts His 'Spider-Verse' Problem," The New York Times, December 2018.
• "Southern Baptist Seminary Documents and Discloses History of 'Deep Racism,'" On Point, December 2018. 
• "It's On Men to End Sexism in the Black Church," The New York Times, December 2018.
• "What the Source Taught Me," The New York Times, August 2018. 
• "The Realness, Dissect, and Mogul use one new art form to examine another," Slate, August 2018. 
• "Come Sunday and the  Crisis of Faith," Slate, May 2018. 
• "'Black Panther' and the Revenge of the Black Nerds," The New York Times, February 2018.
• Ed. "The Young C.L.R. James: A Graphic Novelette," PM Press, forthcoming. 
• "Marvel's Newly Renumbered Comic Books Reveal Its Historic Disinterest in Promoting Black Superheroes" Slate, October 2017.
• "A Letter of Thanks to My Son Who Wants to Be Luke Cage This Halloween" The Root, October 2017.
• Afterword for, C.L.R. James: The Artist As Revolutionary, Penguin Random House, October 2017. 
• "The Woes of the Southern Baptist Convention" The New York Times, August 2017. 
• "Why I'm Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention" The New York Times, July 2017. 
• "Still a White Man's Sport" Slate, April 2017.
• "Black Actors Could Make History at This Year's Oscars, but the Roles Matter More Than the Wins" Slate, February 2016.
• "Terence Crutcher is the Latest Victim in Oklahoma's War on Black Americans" Fusion, September 2016.
• "Cedric Robinson, Author of Black Marxism, Died This Month to Little Fanfare, but Not Before He Changed My Life" The Root, June 2016
• "How 'Green Book' Gives Short Shrift to a Gay Life," New York Times, February 2019
• "In 'Us,' the Tethered Lives That Prisoners Would Recognize," New York Times, April 2019
• "How 'Dear White People' Season 3 Unpacks Race and #MeToo," New York Times, August 2019
• "The Real Threat of 'Joker' Is Hiding in Plain Sight," New York Times, October 2019

CENTER FOR AFRICANA STUDIES & CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS, FALL 2017 EVENTS
Flyer

• October 19th at 7pm in 035 MUR: Oklahoma Premiere of "Whose Streets?"
• October 23rd at 7pm in 101 JB: "Insidious Trauma: Exploring the Mental Health Implications for Experiences with Oppression" by LaVonya Bennett
• November 15th at 7pm in Murray Hall Parlor, Talk by J. W. Franklin: "Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture," part of the Murray Hall Civil Rights Speaker Series https://nmaahc.si.edu/
• November 27th at 7pm in 035 MUR: "Heavy: An American Memoir" by Kiese Laymon

SUMMER 2020 CLASS SCHEDULE

• May 18 to June 5: PHIL 3623.42713 & 43786 Philosophy of Race (DH)
• June 8 to July 31: PHIL 3623.43244 Philosophy of Race (DH)
• June 8 to July 31: AFAM 3950.42760 Black Popular Culture