Dr. Gerald Horne will deliver the fourteenth annual UNC at Chapel Hill African American History Month Lecture on Wednesday, the 21st of February, at 7 p.m. Horne currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Dr. Horne’s research spans a broad range of subjects, including race and race relations, labor and labor history, Japanese and African American relations, civil rights, international relations, and socialism in African American and U.S. history. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Princeton University.
The African American History Month Lecture is organized each year by the UNC Department of History with the support of other units across the campus:
Office of the Chancellor
Office of the Provost
University Office of Diversity and Inclusion
African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Carolina Public Humanities
Center for Civil Rights at The UNC School of Law
Center for the Study of the American South
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Communication
Department of Dramatic Art
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Department of History Department of Religious Studies
Frank Porter Graham Race, Culture, Ethnicity Committee
Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Institute of African American Research
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Department of Music
School of Law
Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Carolina Women’s Center