“God cried”: Charles’ “destan” on the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author or co-author of thirteen books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. Her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, comes out March 25. Her New York Times-bestselling biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography and has been adapted into a documentary of the same name, for NBC-Peacock, where she served as a consulting producer.

Robert Artinian is a private music teacher in metropolitan Detroit with an academic background in the history of religion, philology and linguistic philosophy. Over the past decade, he has developed a keen interest in genocide studies and Armenian migration after 1909, and is currently working to locate his family’s story in this wider historical landscape. In spite of these facts, his students appear to genuinely like him. For this and for them, he is extremely grateful.