The ’s 11th annual Jacob H. Carruthers Conference will take place from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Donn F. Bailey Legacy Hall at the , 700 E. Oakwood Blvd.
Free and open to the public, the conference’s theme is “Intellectual Warfare and African Liberation.” Presenters include:
- Conrad Worrill: Strategy and Practice: Carruthers’ African Worldview and Organizing for Liberation
- Yvonne Jones: Jacob Carruthers and African Spirituality
- Ifé Carruthers: Reflections on Jacob Carruthers’ Strategic “Kush and Kemet Pillars of African-centered Thought
- William Leslie Balan-Gaubert: “Lessons from the Haitian Revolution”
Jacob H. Carruthers Jr. was the founding director of the Kemetic Institute. For 32 years, he was a professor of History and Education at Northeastern’s Center for Inner City Studies. The Center was renamed the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City in January of 2005.
