'More Than a Month: Black History Year-Round,' Featuring Speakers from UMBC, Hopkins, March 15
March 10, 2017
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"More than a Month: Why We Need Black History Year-Round," a discussion between the award-winning historians Michelle Scott of UMBC and N.D.B. Connolly of Johns Hopkins University, will take place at the University of Baltimore on Wednesday, March 15, beginning at 6 p.m. in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons Town Hall,1415 Maryland Ave. Joshua Davis, assistant professor in UB's Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies, will serve as moderator. The talk is free and open to the public.
"More than a Month: Why We Need Black History Year Round" will focus on the relevance and urgency of African American history. Scott serves as associate professor of history at UMBC, where she specializes in 20th-century United States history, African American history, women's history, black musical culture, and civil rights. Connolly, the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins, specializes in racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the 20th century. He is co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show BackStory.
Learn more about the Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies in the University of Baltimore's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.