Taft Keynote Address: The Importance of Black Cultural Institutions in America

Date: 

Friday, 1 February, 2013 - 19:00

Location: 

Great Hall, TUC

Dr. Maulana Karenga was a major figure in the black power movement in the 1960s and 1970s, he’s the creator of the African-American holiday Kwanzaa, and is currently the Chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University-Long Beach.  On February 1, 2013, Dr. Karenga will help the University of Cincinnati welcome Black History Month with his lecture "The History of Black Cultural Institutions in America."