Punished for Dreaming: School Reform and Healing

Bettina Love, who holds the William F. Russell Professorship at Teachers College, Columbia University, will utilize her text to contextualize the past while addressing the current state of education. Love will delve into educational reparations for Black students to heal the transgressions of the past, which intimately connects with Tulsa’s tragic history and its contentious present as the fight for reparations remains an ongoing struggle.

Afterward, Stevie “View” Johnson, executive producer of “Punished for Dreaming (Presented by Dr. Bettina Love),” will transition the event into an album listening party, DJ set and discussion, featuring Love and artists Am’re Ford, KO, and Jacobi Ryan, who will discuss their process of making music to supplement the topics presented in the text, and how music is another educational tool used to educate and liberate.

Love will be signing and selling copies of her book at the event. Registration is required.

This event is cosponsored by the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, OSU Libraries, OSU Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, the Center for Poets and Writers, The Center for the Humanities, the Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professorship in Rural Teacher Education, Oklahoma Humanities, the Fae Rawdon Norris Endowment for the Humanities, The University of Tulsa’s Kendall College of Arts & Sciences, the OU Carceral Studies Consortium, the Restorative Justice Institute of Oklahoma, the OSU American Studies Department, and the OSU Department of Africana Studies.