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Scholar Hour: Dr. Benjamin Talton

Tue, Feb 28

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Sankofa Video, Books, & Café

Join us for a discussion on the importance of archiving Black history and literature with Dr. Benjamin Talton, Director of the Moorland Spingard Research Center at Howard University, and author of In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics.

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Scholar Hour: Dr. Benjamin Talton
Scholar Hour: Dr. Benjamin Talton

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Feb 28, 2023, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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About the author:

Dr. Benjamin Talton is the Director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Professor of African and African Diasporic History. He earned his BA in history at Howard University and his doctorate, also in history, at the University of Chicago. He has published three books: The Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality (Palgrave 2010); Black Subjects in Africa and its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing (Palgrave 2011); and, most recently, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics (Penn Press 2019), which won the 2020 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association. Prior to his return to Howard University, Dr. Talton was a professor of African History at Temple University, Visiting Senior Lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and assistant professor of History at Hofstra University. Dr. Talton is an…

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