8. Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series

The Buzz -- The 29th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, one of New Jersey’s oldest and most highly esteemed Black History Month events, will take place on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 9:30am at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Newark campus of Rutgers University. This year the conference is titled: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Lincoln, the NAACP, and the World They Created. It will acknowledge the significance of the bicentennial anniversary of President Lincoln’s birth and the centennial anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The keynote Marion Thompson Wright Lectures will be given by Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University and Bob Herbert, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. For more information, please visit our website.