(Columbia, S.C.) – Allen University will host the 3rd Annual Preserving the Legacy of HBCUs Conference: “Birth of a Nation” on February 18 from 8:15 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Chappelle Gallery.
The keynote speaker for the conference is former South Carolina House of Representative and current CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers. Sellers made history in 2006 when he defeated a 26-year incumbent State Representative to
become the youngest member of the South Carolina State Legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation at 22 years old. Sellers earned his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College.
The conference will serve as a working workshop that will function as an incubator between sister HBCUs and stake-holding organizations. The goal of these collaborations is to produce concrete, generationally-impactful initiatives designed to sustain HBCUs into the 21st century.