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Annual Public Lecture

Our Annual Public Lecture features distinguished public intellectuals whose work promotes engaged thought and scholarship around the topics of race and ethnicity within the public sphere. See below for an archive of lectures: 

May 2024 | Gina Dent

April 2023 | Ericka Huggins 

May 2022 | Hortense Spillers 

April 2021 | Reginald Dwayne Betts (Video available upon request)

May 2019 | Jose Antonio Vargas

May 2017 | Vijay Prashad

Apr 2016 | Kathleen Neal Cleaver

Feb 2015 | Dr. Cornel West

May 2014 | Danny Glover

May 2013 | Dr. Angela Y. Davis