WASHINGTON – The 2020-2021 Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy Lecture Series, chaired by political strategist and author Donna Brazile, will return Tuesday, March 16 at 5 p.m. EST online via Zoom. Brazile will be joined by Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D., and Eugene Scott to discuss their new book, a #1 New York Times bestseller, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019.” Registration is now open.

“Four Hundred Souls” is a unique one-volume community history of African-Americans. Edited by Blain and Ibram X. Kendi, 90 brilliant writers provide historical accounts of the 400-year history of African slavery, segregation and resistance in the United States.

Blain is an award-winning historian of 20^th-century United States. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is a 2020-2021 fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and also serves as an editor for The Washington Post’s “Made by History” section. She has published extensively on race, gender and politics in both national and global perspectives and is the author of the multi-prize-winning book “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom.” Blain earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and her bachelor’s degree in history from Binghamton University.

Scott is an award-winning political reporter for The Washington Post and host of Amazon’s top original podcast, “The Next Four Years.” He has spent two decades covering politics at the local, national and international level. Scott previously covered national politics at CNN and was a fellow at the Georgetown University Institute of Politics. Scott earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

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About Howard University

Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue more than 140 programs of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University operates with a commitment to Excellence in Truth and Service and has produced one Schwarzman Scholar, three Marshall Scholars, four Rhodes Scholars, 11 Truman Scholars, 25 Pickering Fellows and more than 165 Fulbright recipients. Howard also produces more on-campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, visit www.howard.edu.

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