Searching for Black Ancestors in the American West

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In this UHD President Lecture, African diaspora archaeologist and UH professor Alicia Odewale, Ph.D., will take her audience on a journey to reveal lost, burned down, abandoned, and built over Black Towns and freedom colonies.

“The search for Black ancestors,” writes Dr. Odewale, “requires unearthing buried histories, reclaiming what Toni Morrison described as the ‘disremembered past,’ and seeing with new eyes the complex landscapes of Black heritage that have been erased from the map.”