Claremont Insider: Tomorrow at the Ath

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Tomorrow at the Ath

Now that the spring term is in session, the calendar of events at the Claremont Colleges is looking a little more lively than it has in a few weeks. The Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College is hosting Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (pictured, left), tomorrow night.

Gates will be the guest speaker for CMC's annual Martin Luther King, Jr., lecture. The Ath's online calendar has the following information:

Thursday, January 22, 6:45pm

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University professor; director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; author, forthcoming In Search of Our Roots (2009) and Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (2007); CMC’s 22nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture; "Genetics, Genealogy and African American History"

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
at the Claremont McKenna College
385 E. 8th St.
Claremont, CA 91711-6420 (909) 621-8244
Fax: (909) 621-8579
athenaeum@claremontmckenna.edu