Dr. Benjamin Talton is the Director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research center at Howard University. He is a historian and an award-winning author including The Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality (Palgrave 2010); Black Subjects in Africa and its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing (Palgrave 2011), which he co-edited with Dr. Quincy Mills of the University of Maryland; and, most recently, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics (Penn Press 2019), which won the 2020 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association. His research and writing explores histories of the African Diaspora, ethnicity, and politics in Ghana, and the intersection of African and African American politics and popular culture in the 20th Century. Dr. Talton will share his expertise and reflect on some of his recent research.
