Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, will speak on “The Descent of Democracy and The Promise of African-American History.” He is the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history.

RSVP and more information online. The event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas.

Location: University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 2315 Red River St. (SRH 3), first floor lobby, Austin 78712