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Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente is UCIS Research Professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also senior editor of Hispanic American Historical Review.

James Sweet is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Justin Wolfe, associate professor of Latin American History at Tulane University, explores the often hidden history of the African Diaspora in Central America.

Diamonds from Sierra Leone have long been viewed negatively around the world. Why? Africans struggled for the control of mining rough diamonds and selling the gems during and after the civil war in that country from 1991 to 2002.

Naomi Davis is an urban theorist, attorney, and activist. In this lecture, Davis weaves together the rate at which Americans are consuming earth's resources, the resulting disproportionate negative impact on communities of color, the obfuscation of energy efficiency vs.

Kimberly K. Smith traces the ideological origins of the environmental justice movement in the environmental philosophies of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and other leaders of the early civil rights movement.

Orrin Williams will look at Sankofa--translated as "it is not bad to go back for that which you have forgotten" or "looking back to move forward"--as the framework for applying African cultural and spiritual antecedents to community and economic development initiatives.