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UI teams with black-history program

By Christine Des Garennes
Friday April 18, 2008

Robert K. O'Daniell

Jennifer Hamer, acting director of African American Studies, talks about The HistoryMakers project in the south lounge of the Illini Union in Urbana on Wednesday.

Yes, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey are notable.

But so is Olly Wilson, music composer and UI alumna.

And so is Chicago poet Sterling Plumpp.

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