LECTURE

Agents of Change Lecture Wednesday Feb. 4 Brookens Auditorium Brookens Library, UIS, 217-206-8497 5:30pm reception, 6:30pm program begins Free

HistoryMakers

Celebrate Black History Month with the University of Illinois at Springfield at the HistoryMakers’ Agents of Change Lecture. The speaker series includes a talk by Carol Moseley Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first to serve as assistant majority leader. After her term in the U.S. Senate she was appointed Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

Braun is now the founder and president of Good Food Organic, parent company of Ambassador Brand Organic Products. The lecture is part of the Dr. Frances G. Carroll 2008-2009 Speaker Series. The HistoryMakers, a Chicago-based nonprofit, is the nation’s largest African-American video oral history archive. It chronicles the lives of well-known and unknown African-Americans. The program can be viewed through a live webcast at www.ius.edu/technology/uislive.html.