Join us for the 16th Annual Underground Railroad & Black History Conference.

- 10 - 10:45 a.m. Registration

- 10:50 a.m. Opening Remarks by Dr. Molefi K. Asante, Chair, DAAAS

- 11:00 a.m. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA: "The Philadelphia story: Du Bois, Cecil b. Moore and History"

- 1:15 p.m Dr. Valerie Harrison, "Funding Education for Black Philadelphia: History and Race"

- 2:30 p.m. Mr. Jordan Denson, M.A. Ashmun Institute: The First Historically Black College/University and Its Convoluted Beginnings.

- 3:45 p.m. Panel: Professor Timothy Welbeck, Esq. Present State of Black Education in Philadelphia. Participants: Dr. M. A. Hunter, Dr. Valerie Harrison, Mr. Jordan Denson

- 4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks