Africana Scholarship At UTC Black History Month Lecture

By Ray Bassett

Published March 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM EST

(Aired Weds 2/12/25)

For this Black History Month, an Africana scholar at Temple University in Philadelphia speaks on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The lecture by Prof. Molefi Kete Asante is Thursday, starting at 6:30 PM in the University Center Auditorium on campus - free and open to the public.

Dr. Michael Williams is a professor of history - and director of Africana Studies - here at UTC.

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