On Feb. 18, the 37th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series drew hundreds from throughout the state to hear a series of scholars discuss “City Moves: Black Urban History Since 1967.” Issues of civil and human rights, housing and gentrification, and health and income inequalities in American cities were in sharp focus at the state’s largest and most prestigious Black History Month event, sponsored by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark. A reception and jazz concert by the Bradford Hayes Trio in the Great Hall of 15 Washington Street capped the daylong conference.

Click here to read the welcome remarks by Chancellor Nancy Cantor.

Here's a pictorial recap (click on each image for a high resolution photo):

All photos by Fred Stucker