Taylor to moderate Piedmont College Lillian Smith Symposium March 14

DEMOREST - Barbara Brown Taylor, Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College, will moderate the first "Lillian E. Smith Symposium on Arts and Social Change," to be held at the Piedmont Athens campus on Saturday, March 14.

During the 1940s, the late Lillian E. Smith of Clayton was one of the first Georgia writers to shine a light on the South's ingrained system of segregation. "Lillian Smith's observations and activism from the 1940s and on into the 1960s are as relevant today as they were then," said Ashley Cleere, chaplain at Piedmont College. "Throughout her career as a writer and humanitarian, Smith examined how the arts engage people around issues of social injustice, segregation, and isolation," Cleere said.

Among the speakers will be CNN correspondent John Blake; Princeton professor and author Dr. Imani Perry; and former U.S. Congressman C. Donald Johnson, currently director of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy in Athens.

The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m.

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