Event Videos
Below are Keynote Speakers that the Black Student Union and the Office of Multicultural Affairs brought to campus for speaking engagements.
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Black Student Union Black History Month Speaker
Derrick "DNA" Ashong
Lecture Title: Dear President Obama
OMA Leadership Development Series: The Art of Networking
Speaker: Larry L. Meadows Jr.
Critical Race Theory Series
Speaker: Tim Wise
3rd Annual 2009 OMA Unity Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Naomi Tutu
The belief that there is still much to do to eradicate the legacy of three centuries of racial oppression is what spurs Naomi Tutu to continue to speak out about the race and gender issues in South Africa. The third daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Nomalizo, Tutu founded and was the chairperson of the Tutu Foundation. The foundation provided scholarships to South African refugees so that they could learn skills that would make them self-supporting while in exile as well as prepare them for constructive roles in the free South Africa.
4th Annual 2010 OMA Unity Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Cornel West
Cornel Ronald West born June 2, 1953 is an African American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist, as well as a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism, and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses upon the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their “radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism.
