After the Dance: Conversations on Michael Jackson's Black America

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don't know if already posted. But I didn't find it.

Friday June 04, 2010
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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After the Dance is a two-day forum for artists, academics, educators, and Michael fans to engage in shared dialogue, debate and deconstruction about the many faces and facets of Michael Jackson, and the mirror his four-decade public presence holds to the Black experience.

About this Event

Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009. After a year of media-sanctioned` mourning through concert tributes, film specials, video marathons and an extravagance of merchandising, who will bear the questions of music industry exploitation, self-hate, sexuality, addiction and apparent madness that Michael’s life and death urge us to ask? Michael’s story echoes the ongoing crises of experience and identity faced not only by Black America, but the Black Diaspora as a whole. These conversations demand space beyond the video tribute.

http://fusicology.com/event/?event_id=31366
 
Damn that's today. I wish I had know about this earlier, I would have taken the day off to go and check it out. =( I guess I still can...
 
I hate they equate Michael with "safe-hate". I hate that.
 
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