The CBI Adult Education Committee is proud to present the next installment in the CBI Lecture Series: A conversation between Aniko Bodroghkozy (UVA Media Studies Professor and CBI member) and Phyllis Leffler (CBI member, UVA History professor emerita, and president of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Historical Society) about Aniko's new book titled "Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right". While the book offers in-depth analysis of the events of August 12, it is also quite personal - Aniko was at CBI in the morning of August 12, and on the streets of Charlottesville counter-protesting like many others from the CBI community.

About The Book:

The 2017 "Summer of Hate" in Charlottesville became a worldwide media event, putting at center stage the resurgence of emboldened and empowered white supremacy and "alt-right" extremism, as well as the antiracist movement opposing it. Aniko Bodroghkozy’s trenchant study examines this formative moment in recent U.S. history by juxtaposing it against two other epochal moments that put American racism and the struggle against it on worldwide display: the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma campaigns of the civil rights movement. [...]

Click HERE to learn more about the book and HERE to read an interview with Aniko about the genesis of the book and the writing process published in UVA Today.

Copies of Aniko's book will be available to purchase at the event.