Price Institute invites you to join us for the 44th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, "La Fuerza de las Voces Negras: Afrolatinidades en las Americas." In this role she leads museum research and collections that center Latinidad through an African American lens. About Marion Thompson Wright Lecture SeriesThe Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture (MTW) series was co-founded in 1981 by Rutgers University-Newark Professor Clement A. Marion Thompson Wright was arguably the first black female professional historian and a pioneer in Black New Jersey historiography. In her honor, the series brings outstanding thinkers and doers of African and African American life and history.