Black History Month Lectures

VCU Libraries celebrates the African-American experience and achievements in art, culture, history, literature and the sciences through featuring engaging speakers from diverse backgrounds.

	02/06/2024 VCU Libraries' 24th Black History Month Lecture Narrative Medicine and Identity Featuring physician and cartoonist Shirlene Obuobi, M.D.
	02/23/2023 VCU Libraries' 23rd Black History Month Lecture Musical Crossroads a history of Black music Featuring the Smithsonian’s Dwandalyn Reece, Ph.D.
	02/10/2022 VCU Libraries' 22nd Black History Month Lecture On Juneteenth Featuring Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
	02/03/2021 VCU Libraries' 21st Black History Month Lecture Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America Featuring historian Marcia Chatelain, Ph.D.
	02/11/2020 VCU Libraries' 20th Black History Month Lecture Red, White, Black and Blue, a cartoon slideshow that tackles racial illiteracy in America. Featuring award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight
	02/20/2019 VCU Libraries' 19th Black History Month Lecture We Return. We Return from Fighting. We Return Fighting. Featuring Christy Coleman, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Ph.D, Kiara discussing treatment of Black veterans
	02/15/2018 VCU Libraries' 18th Black History Month Lecture Stamped from the Beginning Featuring award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi
	02/09/2017 VCU Libraries' 17th Black History Month Lecture The Underground Railroad Featuring National Book Award–winning writer Colson Whitehead
	02/04/2016 VCU Libraries' 16th Black History Month Lecture They Shoot Black People, Don’t They? Featuring nationally known editorial cartoonist Keith Knight on racism and policing
	02/10/2015 VCU Libraries' 15th Black History Month Lecture Still Separate, Still Unequal Featuring ACLU Racial Justice Program Director Dennis Parker
	02/04/2014 VCU Libraries' 14th Black History Month Lecture A Century of Strides Featuring Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia CEO Viola O. Baskerville
	02/22/2013 VCU Libraries' 13th Black History Month Lecture Justice for All? Featuring formerly unjustly incarcerated Marvin Anderson and Innocence Project attorney Peter Neufeld
	02/22/2012 VCU Libraries' 12th Black History Month Lecture Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority Featuring advertising executive and author Tom Burrell
	02/10/2011 VCU Libraries' 11th Black History Month Lecture An Evening with Melissa Harris-Perry Featuring television commentator Melissa Harris-Perry
	02/09/2010 VCU Libraries' 10th Black History Month Lecture 50 Years After the Student-led Sit-ins: Where are we now? Featuring Jenny Jones, Napoleon Peoples, Jill Rowe and Shawn Utsey
	02/10/2009 VCU Libraries' 9th Black History Month Lecture The Physical Presence of Slavery in Richmond, Virginia Featuring Maureen G. Elgersman Lee, Del. Delores McQuinn and Jeffrey Ruggles
	02/04/2009 VCU Libraries' 8th Black History Month Lecture The C3 Project: Looking Forward, Looking Black
	02/12/2008 VCU Libraries' 7th Black History Month Lecture Richmond Women in the Civil Rights Movement Featuring Ora Lomax, Elizabeth Johnson Rice and Hilda Warden
	02/27/2007 VCU Libraries' 6th Black History Month Lecture Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance Featuring Ron McCurdy, Ph.D., and Diane Richardson, Ph.D.
	02/28/2006 VCU Libraries' 5th Black History Month Lecture Empower the People Presented by Tony Brown
	02/19/2006 VCU Libraries' 4th Black History Month Lecture New Boy Featuring Julian Houston
	02/15/2005 VCU Libraries' 3rd Black History Month Lecture And Still I Sing: African-American Women in Three Musical Traditions Featuring Christopher Brooks, Ph.D.
	02/24/2004 VCU Libraries' 2nd Black History Month Lecture The Road to Brown: The Prince Edward County Student Strike, 1951 A panel featuring Brian Grogan, John Kneebone, Edward H. Peeples, Joy Cabarrus Speakes, John Stokes and Sammy Williams
	02/26/2003 VCU Libraries' 1st Black History Month Lecture Separate but Not Equal: Race, Education and Virginia A roundtable discussion of the mid-20th century civil rights movement Featuring panel discussions with Jean Fairfax, Vonita Foster, Ph.D., Rev. Curtis Harris, Rev. Haslip “Happy” Lee, State Sen. Henry Marsh III, and Edward Peeples, Ph.D. Moderated by Honorable James W. Benton Jr.