Carlon Harris, a senior African American Studies major and Honors Program student, was one of several UAB students selected to attend the 21st Black Solidarity Conference at Yale University in February. This year’s theme was "The Miseducation: Changing History As We Know It," highlighting the ways that black histories have often been misconstrued, falsely constructed, and ignored in the US.

Conference participants attended workshops, panels, presentations, and discussions covering a variety of issues including: PWIs (predominantly white institutions) v. HBCUs (historically black colleges/universities); race and the politics of punishment; how class matters in black lives; and many other topics. The Yale University conference is a student-organized and student-hosted conference that brings undergraduates of all colors together to discuss issues pertaining to the African Diaspora.

Carlon Harris also was interviewed recently by Birmingham’s WBRC Fox 6 for their story on human trafficking. Carlon is completing a documentary on human trafficking as his Honors Program Project. You can read the interview on the station’s website.