Shamin Speaker Series: Dr. Edna Greene Medford

By |2022-03-02T15:16:40+00:00October 29th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

The MLWGS Foundation was proud to host the first event for the Shamin Speaker Series, made possible by a major gift from Amishi & Neil Amin ('96), on October 25, 2019.  Dr. Edna Greene Medford, professor at Howard University specializing in nineteenth century African-American history, spoke at the 2019 induction ceremony for History Honor Society.  Dr. Medford spoke on the topic of common misconceptions and inconvenient truths about American slavery, marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in