Farrakhan to Speak at CSUN

Controversial Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan will speak at Cal State Northridge on Nov. 4 to commemorate the seizure of the school’s administration building by protesting black students in 1968 and the subsequent formation of a black studies department.

Farrakhan, who has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks, is scheduled to speak at a $20-per-ticket event at CSUN’s North Campus Stadium, part of a weeklong series of anniversary activities sponsored by the university’s Black Students Union and Pan-African Studies Department.

James Dennis, a professor in CSUN’s Pan-African Studies Department, said Farrakhan has spoken at the campus at least three times in the past, but said those appearances were in the early 1980s.