Hosted by the Midnight Express STEM Scholarship Program, this event will discuss the history of Black Olympians featuring Detroiter Eddie “The Midnight Express” Tolan – the first Black athlete to earn the title of “world’s fastest human” after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200m during the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles and Detroit’s 1963 Olympic bid.

The program will feature talks by Verne Brown, founder of the Midnight Express STEM Scholarship Program, a video talk from Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National African American Museum of History and Culture, and Professor David Goldberg, Department of African American Studies. The event will close with an exclusive screening of the film, "Detroit’s Olympic Uprising."

Admission is free. Parking is available in Structure 1, across the street at Palmer and Cass Ave.