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Past Lectures

  • Bill Deutsch "Water Related Projects in Rwanda and Kenya"
  • Dennis Looney "Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy"
  • Elijah Gaddis "Gruesome Looking Objects: Racial Violence and the Archives"
  • Matt McDaniel "Emigration to Liberia: From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903"
  • Kelly Kennington "In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America"
  • Earnestine Robinson "The Negro Spiritual"
  • Adeola Fayemi "African Immigrant Parenting in the USA: Children of Two Worlds"
  • Bernard LaFayette "The Civil Rights Movement in the United States"
  • Benjamin Fagan "The Black Press and the American Apocalypse"
  • Elizabeth I. Essamuah-Quansah "Auburn in Africa"
  • Joan Harrell "The Untold Story: Nurse Eunice Rivers and The Unethical Syphilis Study at Tuskegee"
  • Jennifer Brooks "From the Congo to the Convict Lease: Africa in Alabama Coal Mines"
  • Tom Hicks "Democracy is Rooted in Accessible, Secure and Fair Elections looking ahead to the 2018 Federal Election"
  • Tim Dodge "African American Covers of Country Music Before Ray Charles"
  • Michael Battle “Vulnerable Populations, Immigration and Niger Update”
  • Lucius Outlaw "On Africana Philosophy”
  • Tim Dodge “Rhythm and Blues Goes Calypso: The Incorporation of West Indian Calypso into African American Rhythm and Blues c. 1945-1965”
  • Stacey Nickson "After Mandela: South African Education in the Context of Politics, Business and Race"
  • Carla Jackson Bell "Views on 'Blackness': An Architectural Discourse"
  • Sheyann Webb-Christburg "Turbulent events of winter 1965 in Selma, Alabama"
  • Adrienne Duke “Africana Studies and Outreach: An exploration of how to affect change locally and globally”
  • Mitchell Brown and Kathleen Hale “The Voting Rights Act and Judicial Professionalization of Race in American Elections"
  • David Carter "Mississippi 'Freedom Summer' Voter Registration Drive"
  • Shakeer Abdullah "Who is Best Prepared to Support African American and Other Students in the Diaspora in Higher Education"
  • Carol Ann Bachl Dennis "Whispers of Freedom: Exploring Laura Beecher Comer's Diary Through the Prism of the Comer Slaves' Resistance"
  • Tim Dodge "School of Arizona Dranes: Gospel Music Pioneer"
  • Jaena Alabi "An Introduction to Racial Microaggressions"