Bill Fletcher President and Chief Executive, TransAfrica Forum, Washington DC As we enter the 21st century, the color line in the global Pan-African movement has certainly not disappeared, but has evolved. Other divisions among the oppressed have complicated notions of transformative strategy for the movement: national liberation struggles hit a strategic dead-end after defeating colonialism and wealth polarization on the planet has raised the issue of class like never before. Race is constantly reconstructed; it is never a permanent category. The Eighth W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Hosted by: African American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies In conjunction with: African-American Cultural Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Law, Department of French, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Sociology, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program Monday, February 27, 2006 4:00 pm Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center