Anschutz Lecture – Activism at the Intersections of Race and Youth: Prairie View A&M University, Black Colleges & the Fight for Voting Rights

Melanye T. Price is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers—New Brunswick. Dr. Price is an Endowed Professor of Political Science at Prairie View A&M University and principal investigator for their African American Studies Initiative, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. She is the author of The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race, and Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion.