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This Week in Photos: In Celebration of Returning Black Alumni
February 4, 2021
Yvonne Gay
![A man speaks into a microphone at a podium.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_760/public/content/news/images-2021/ishmael_beah_04.yevhen_gulenko.jpg?itok=mD4NqltJ)
Ishmael Beah '04 delivers a Convocation Lecture.
Photo credit: Yeven Gulenko
Author Ishmael Beah ’04 returned to Oberlin College in 2010 to discuss the publication of his New York Times best-selling book, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Four years later Beah’s visit to Finney Chapel took place after the publication of Radiance of Tomorrow, A Novel, which would go on to become another best-seller. Beah’s visits to campus serve as inspiration for this week’s photo series.
Throughout the years Black alumni have given lectures, performances, and master classes at Oberlin. We invite you to relive some of these events.
View these experiences on Oberlin’s Flickr page.
![A performer blows into a trumpet.](/sites/default/files/content/news/images-2021/theo_croker_07.roger_mastroianni.jpg)
![A woman wearing a head wrap speaks bows her head in front of a podium.](/sites/default/files/content/news/images-2021/johnnetta_cole_57.dalepreston83.jpg)
![An elderly man gives a speech in front of a podium.](/sites/default/files/content/news/images-2021/rev._james_lawson_jr._57.johnseyfried.jpg)
![An ensemble gives a performance on a large stage.](/sites/default/files/content/news/images-2021/imaniwinds.walternovak.jpg)
![A woman gives a lecture.](/sites/default/files/content/news/images-2021/umra_omar_06.walternovak.jpg)
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