Speaker reflects on black excellence at CSUF president’s reception

When considering the words “black excellence,” Gwendolyn Alexis says she found herself “traveling back in time.”
The keynote speaker of the Feb. 27 Black History Month President’s Reception took her audience on a journey to “the continent of Africa, in a civilization older than time,” to the great libraries of Timbuktu and the kingdoms of Queens Amina, Sheba and Nefertiti.
“Then there were human beings whose names we will never know — our anc