Guest Lecture

Meredith Clark

Date & Time: November 11, 2025, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm

Location: Kern Auditorium (112 Kern Building)

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Meredith Clark, author of "We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives," will discuss her work during a free public lecture. Clark, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. She's a former newspaper journalist whose research focuses on the intersections of race, media and power. Clark's award-winning dissertation on Black Twitter landed her on The Root 100, the news website's list of the most influential African Americans in the country, in 2015.