This audio recording features a Founder's Day event at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The recording opens with Dillard University President Samuel DuBois Cook talking about the history of Dillard University as an institution that has always worked toward equality for all people. Cook goes on to introduce Joseph E. Lowery as the keynote speaker for the 111th Founder's Day. At 00:12:41, Lowery begins his speech by addressing a recent tragedy of a furnace explosion in Atlanta that killed four African American children. Lowery acknowledged the fear that this explosion might be related to the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children cases. Lowery centers his remarks around the subject of "Black community, come home", discussing the need to come home to its sense of familyhood and to turn away from invidious individualism. In his concluding remarks, Lowery reminds the audience that they are part of a world community and that the Black community's role as moral harbingers has international implications as well.
