YouTube Premiere at 1:30 pm (PST):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBnRXKHShKU

RSVP for Zoom Q&A at 2:30 pm (PST):
https://csusb.zoom.us/j/86403741921

The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA), American Research Center for Egypt (ARCE)OC, and Bowers Museum present a free virtual lecture, Hand Unto Ethiopia: The First African Americans to Visit Nubia with Dr. Jeremy Pope.

Since at least the middle of the 18th century, people of African descent in the Americas have invoked ancient Nubia—the “Ethiopia” and “Cush” of the Bible—as exemplar of African history and signifier of a global racial identity.

Dr. Pope’s lecture will seek to reconstruct the history of the first African American visitors to Nubia from correspondence and interviews with their descendants.