Northwestern hosts renowned history and humanities scholar Gabrielle Foreman
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 6, 2022
Internationally renowned Black history, literature and digital humanities scholar Gabrielle Foreman will participate in a series of Northwestern University campus events May 2 to 6.
Foreman is professor of English, African American studies and history at Penn State University, where she holds the Joseph Paterno Family Chair in Liberal Arts. She is the founding director of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP) website, which preserves the records of seven decades of early Black convention organizing and features interactive historical exhibits, documenting what was then called the Colored Convention . . .