Dr. Candice Jenkins
Associate Professor, English & African American Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderator
Dr. Dana Williams
Interim Dean, Graduate School
Howard University
"Toni Morrison and Understanding Slavery: Perspective of a Literary Scholar"
Dr. Christopher Span
Associate Dean, College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Of the White Lion"
Dr. Ronald Bailey
Head, Department of African American Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"'Those Valuable People, the Africans': The Slave(ry) Trade & the Development of Industrial Capitalism in the U.S. and the West"
