Join the Office of Mayor Karen Bass; Dr. Lura Daniels-Ball, President, Our Authors Study Club, Inc.; Marqueece Harris-Dawson, President Pro Tempore, Los Angeles City Council, Councilman, Eighth District; Curren D. Price, Councilman, Ninth District; Heather Hutt, Councilwoman, Tenth District; Board of Public Works President Pro Tempore Mike Davis and the Board of Public Works; The 2024 African American Heritage Month Honorary Chair Danny Bakewell, Jr., Executive Vice President, The Bakewell Company; the 2024 African American Heritage Month Committee; and the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) to witness an engaging discussion of the National Black History theme during our
Annual Round Table Discussion.
Moderated by popular co-anchor of ABC7 Eyewitness News, Marc Brown, join local scholars: Dr. Maulana Karenga, Chair, Africana Studies, CSULB; Dr. Brenda Stevenson, Professor and Historian/Author African American Studies, UCLA; Dr. Salim Faraji, Professor and former Chair Africana Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Dr. Boris Ricks, Director, Center for Southern California Studies, CSUN; and Dr. Francille Rusan Wilson, Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity, History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC who will discuss and expand on the 2024 national Black History theme for African American Heritage Month, African Americans and the Arts.
