{"id":14739,"date":"2026-04-15T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=14739"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:51:04","slug":"ashley-brown-lecture-thurs-4-23-at-430pm-in-the-ruane-great-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/ashley-brown-lecture-thurs-4-23-at-430pm-in-the-ruane-great-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Brown Lecture Thurs., (4\/23) at 4:30pm in the Ruane Great Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The English Department is delighted to announce that Professor Ashley Brown of the University of Wisconsin will be speaking on campus about the tennis legend, Althea Gibson, perhaps the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century.\u00a0 She will be speaking Thursday, April 23, at 4:30, in the Fiondella Great Room in Ruane.<br>Professor Brown recently wrote an award-winning biography of Gibson, setting her life against the background of the Great Migration, Jim Crow racism, the integration of American sports, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War, and second wave feminism.\u00a0 The flyer provides more details.\u00a0 Spread the word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/providence.tfaforms.net\/uploads\/get\/f624b9876bfaf080a174e550a5524cea-AshleyBrownApril232026Flyer.png\/8\/f70291c2f6ff76d2279192e450638016\" alt=\" Professor Ashley Brown of the University of Wisconsin Poster\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an evening with Ashley Brown, author of &#8220;Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson&#8221;. Light refreshments and book signing after. All welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14740,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions\/14740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}