The Africana Studies Program brings to campus a new, ongoing series, Black Studies Book Club brings a scholar whose recent publication has shifted the conversation in Africana Studies to campus each semester to give a public lecture (free and open to everyone). Our inaugural Black Studies Book Club Scholar is Rinaldo Walcott, who will be speaking about his book The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom on Wednesday, October 20 at 6pm in Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center. There will be a reception following the public lecture.