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Volume 71, Issue 94,
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
News Lectures to look at black history Two African-American Studies speakers to discuss Islam, identity by MARY HULSE
The African-American Studies program at UH is sponsoring a series of lectures, in addition to other events around campus, in honor of Black History Month. The series brings black authors to campus to discuss their experiences and discoveries as historians. Authors Richard B. Turner and Christel Temple will participate in the Africana Lecture Series this week. Turner will speak at 11:30 a.m. today in the A.D. Bruce Religion Center. He will discuss his book, Islam and the African American Experience. In the book, Turner describes the history of Islam in West Africa and its movement in African-American culture since the slave trade. African-American Studies program director Paul Easterling said Turner's lecture will analyze "the progression of Islam in African American history." Temple is scheduled to speak about her book Literary Pan Africanism at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Room 628, Agnes Arnold Hall. Both are free and open to the public. Temple's book analyzes the evolution of the relationship
between Africans and African-Americans. It also demonstrates the changes
in how each culture defines itself in relation to the other.
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