Professor Farrah J. Griffin co-director of CSSD working group Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women and chairwoman of Columbia University’s new African American and African Diaspora Studies department read a selection from her book “Who Set You Flowin’?” as part of the program “Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration" at the Kennedy Center.

“Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration" tells the story of the historic Great Migration when millions of black Americans fled the South of the 20th century through music and the spoken word.

The concert, produced and presented by Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz, and his wife, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for their “Migrations: The Making of America,” its New York City-based festival exploring people’s movements across America.

Farrah Jasmine Griffin is the chairwoman of Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies department and the William B. Ransford Professor of English & Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University.