FSU Panama City will celebrate Black History Month with FSU Professor of English, Maxine Montgomery presenting “From Lemons to Lemonade: Beyoncé, Blackgirlmagic, and Lessons from Miss Hatties’ Kitchen.” The free community event will be held 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, at FSU Panama City’s Holley Lecture Hall, 4750 Collegiate Drive, Panama City.

Montgomery is the chair of the FSU President's Task Force on Anti-Racism, Equity & Inclusion and the author of “The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction,” “The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance,” “Race, Culture, and History: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison” and “The Post-Apocalyptic Black Female Imagination.”

Following the lecture is a live performance by award-winning violinist Samantha Crawford (FSU ’20) and a reading by Gulf Coast State College theatre student Shamiracle Ross. 

Register to attend in person at https://blackhistorypc2021.eventbrite.com or join by Zoom: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93595019257

For information, contact Irvin Clark at iclark2@pc.fsu.edu or (850) 770-2100.