Thursday Luncheon Speaker is Dr. Edda Fields Black, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for her work Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

Edda L. Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and was executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice (with Emmy® Award-winning composer John Wineglass), reflecting her long involvement with the interconnective story of rice cultivation in pre-colonial West Africa and on antebellum Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia plantations. She has been a consultant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the International African American Museum, and the Senator John Heinz History Center. Fields-Black lives with her family in Pittsburgh, where she teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University.