The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South presents its annual Sylvia R. Frey lecture. This year’s featured speaker is writer and activist Kalamu ya Salaam. During the talk, ya Salaam shares his latest work, Be About Beauty, a collection of nonfiction essays about New Orleans culture.

This event is free and open to the public. The lecture takes place in the Freeman Auditorium in Tulane University’s Woldenberg Art Center. For more information, visit Facebook.