38th Annual Sojourner Truth Lecture

Charlene A. Carruthers is a writer, filmmaker, and community organizer with more than 20 years experience in racial, gender, and economic justice movements. A Black studies PhD candidate at Northwestern University, she is the founding national director of BYP100 and author of the bestselling book Unapologetic: A Black, Queers and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Her film The Funnel received the Queer Black Voices Award at the aGLIFF Prism Film Festival, and she is a 2024 Northwestern University Presidential Fellow and Marguerite Casey Presidential Freedom Scholar. 

The Sojourner Truth Lectureship, established in 1983, honors the achievements and contributions of outstanding African American women in the U.S. and the African Diaspora. Conceived and administered by faculty in the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, the lectureship is sponsored by six of The Claremont Colleges: Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, Scripps colleges and Claremont Graduate University.