Past Forums

  1. Saturday, October 29, 2016 - 5:00pm

    A Conversation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    Henry Louis Gates
  2. Friday, December 4, 2009 - 7:00pm

    W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony

    Bob Herbert, Frank Pearl, The Rose Family, Shirley Tilghman, Vernon Jordan, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    Henry Louis Gates
  3. Monday, February 9, 2009 - 7:00pm

    Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours

    David Ellwood, David Blight, Adam Gopnik, Allen Carl Guelzo, Tony Kushner, John Stauffer, Drew Gilpin Faust
    Henry Louis Gates
  4. Friday, December 12, 2008 - 7:00pm

    W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony 2008

    Tavis Smiley, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Tamara Robinson, Ingrid Saunders Jones, Cornel West, Richard Plepler
    Henry Louis Gates
  5. Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 8:00pm

    Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later

    David Evans, Minnijean Brown-Trickey, James Rutherford
    Henry Louis Gates
  6. Monday, March 12, 2007 - 8:00pm

    The Continuing Quest For The American Democracy: The Urban Frontier

    Cory Booker
    Henry Louis Gates
  7. Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 8:00pm

    Season of Laureates: Readings in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Wole Soyinka

    Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka
    Henry Louis Gates
  8. Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 8:00pm

    Birth of a Nation: Elections, Successions and Post-Literate America

    Eugene Rivers, Lani Guinier, Michael Flaherty, Reginald Hudlin, Michael Dawson
    Henry Louis Gates
  9. Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 8:00pm

    Reflections on Hip Hop Culture

    Cornel West
    Henry Louis Gates, Charles Ogletree
  10. Monday, March 16, 1998 - 7:00pm

    Why Not Act Up?: Activism, AIDS, and the Black Community

    Henry Louis Gates, Alvin Poussaint, Mario Cooper, Sandra McDonald, George Strait, LeRoy Whitfield, Frederick Williams, Phil Wilson
    Henry Louis Gates
  11. Monday, March 10, 1997 - 7:00pm

    Out of America

    Henry Louis Gates, Les Payne, Kieth Richburg, Mathatha Tsedu
    Henry Louis Gates
  12. Monday, February 28, 1994 - 7:00pm

    African-Americans In The Clinton White House

    Christopher Edley, E.O. Wilson, Keith Boykin, Sheryll Cashin, Donsia Strong
    Henry Louis Gates

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