Related Events

Saginaw Valley State University is proud of the many guests hosted and events held throughout the year which reach the goals of Black Studies.

Guests and programs include:

• Commemoration of Emmett Till
  
  
• Visiting Scholar, Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor of English University of Missouri-Columbia and author of Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement and Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves
   
  
• Commemoration of Malcolm X
   
  
• Visiting Scholar, Sundiata Cha-Jua, Director African American Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
   
  
• International Symposium on Africa. Presenters included Michael Bratton, Professor of Political Science and African Studies Center, Michigan State University and founder and Director, Afrobarometer; Barbara Cooper, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Robert Ferris Thompson, Professor of Art, Yale University
   
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Keynote Speaker, Jocelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General
   
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Keynote Speaker and Visiting Scholar, Manning Marable
   
  
• Visiting Artist, Ernie Paniccioli, hip-hop photographer and scholar