Through Rutgers’ Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History, Rutgers University–New Brunswick hosted an April 6, 2016, lecture by Craig Steven Wilder, MIT historian and author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, which examines the ties of many revered American colleges and universities—including Rutgers—to slavery.