Michael Sawyer

Michael Sawyer, assistant professor in Colorado College’s Race, Ethnicity, & Migration Studies program and English Department, participated in Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series in June. He and Flores Forbes, associate professor of urban planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, discussed Sawyer’s recently published “Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X.” Sawyer, the director of the Africana Intellectual Project at Colorado College, is a political philosopher with a focus on Blackness in particular. Sawyer says the discussion with Forbes was in the works as part of a book tour, but because of the virus it was shifted to a virtual event.