The Royall House & Slave Quarters’ online workshop by Dr. Maryam Aziz that explores how martial arts became a significant form of self determination for Black communities has been postponed. A new date will be announced for April.

Dr. Aziz will provide a historical overview that shows how self-defense moves can be traced back to the Reconstruction period while focusing on how unarmed self-defense contributed to Black Power organizing and shifting ideas about liberation, abolition, and gender norms from the Cold War to our present moment.  Maryam Aziz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Richards Center and the Africana Research Center at Pennsylvania State University.