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Author Victor Luckerson on Campus Oct. 23

What: Built from the Fire - A conversation about the impact of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The event is free and the public is invited.

Who: Built from the Fire author Victor Luckerson, is a former business writer for Time Magazine. His work, focused on bringing neglected black history to light, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired and Smithsonian Magazine, among others. Luckerson will be interviewed by Wanda Lloyd, a retired journalist who served more than four decades in editing roles at seven daily newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today. Lloyd is the former chair of SSU's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.

When: Monday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m.

Where: The Elmore Theater in the King Frazier Complex on the Savannah State University campus, 3219 College Street, Savannah, Ga. 31404

About Built From the Fire:

A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street, that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification.

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