Please join the Department of Africology and African American Studies for the The 17th Annual Underground Railroad and Black History Conference titled Digital Learning: Black History, Underground Railroad and Emancipation.
Keynote Address by MK Asante "While Black: Black History in the Digital Age"
Welcome Remarks:
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante; Chairperson, Africology Department
Dr. Anadolu-Okur; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Africology Department
Dr. A. Waskie; Former College of Liberal Arts Professor
Ms. Latanya Jenkins; Reference Librarian, TU Libraries
Performance by Millicent Sparks as Harriet Tubman
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Gooch, "Hinsonville s Heroes, Agents of Emancipation and Civil Rights"
Panelists:
- Timothy Welbeck, Esq., Panel Chair
- MK Asante; Author, Filmmaker, Recording Artist, and Professor
- Dr. Cheryl Gooch, Author
- Layla Jones; WHYY Reporter
- Ms. Latanya Jenkins; Reference Librarian, TU Libraries
- Lincoln University students
Presented by the Africology and African American Studies Department along with TU Libraries and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection