On October 27, 2016, Sonia Sanchez delivered the annual Davis Lecture. Her lecture, titled “Push Ups for Peace”, was attended by students, faculty, staff and community members from the surrounding Berkshire County area. Sanchez is a renowned scholar, poet, playwright and activist who has been an influential force in African American literary and political culture for over three decades. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, and Shake Loose My Skin. Sanchez was also in the forefront of the Black studies movement and taught the first course in the country on Black Women.
The W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture commemorates the remarkable work of two distinguished scholars, brothers who, throughout their adult lives, made important contributions to equal rights and opportunity in the United States. Allison Davis, valedictorian of the Class of 1924, was a pioneer in the social anthropological study of class and caste in the American South. John A. Davis pursued wide-ranging political science work on race in both the United States and Africa. The Davis Lecture is delivered each year by a scholar whose work concentrates on some aspect of race, class, or education in the United States.
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