Join us for a dinner conversation with Robert Darden about how gospel music engages current social issues and movements
Robert Darden is an associate professor and the director of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University. He is the author of People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music and Nothing But Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
Join us on Tuesday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m. in the McBride Gathering Space (Numen Lumen Pavilion) for a dinner conversation with Darden on the subject of “Gospel Music and Black Lives Matter.” All are welcome. Please RSVP at truittcenter@elon.edu or 336-278-7729.
On Monday, April 18, Darden is also giving this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Black Sacred Music and the American Civil Rights Movement.