Kweku Larry Crowe and his wife Olabisi Olakolade discuss abolitionist Martin Delany's life with Cheryl Durgans, Yellow Springs News; commemoration event on June 8th, 2024 in Wilberforce!

On Saturday, June 8th, beginning at 9 am at the National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio, Howard University professors Dr. Mario Beatty and Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr will join History Maker interviewer and historian Kweku Larry Crowe in a commemoration of the life of Martin R. Delany. His contributions to the liberation of Black people are often overshadowed by his more famous colleague in the struggle, Frederick Douglas. Delany, a physician, abolitionist, explorer and novelist, was also the highest ranking Black officer in the Civil War. He spent the last part of his life in Wilberforce and is interred at a local cemetery. Kweku Larry Crowe and his wife Olabisi Olakolade discuss Delany's life and program details with WCSU.