IN RECOGNITION OF the outstanding leadership and remarkable work of the late Dr Kenneth A. Forde and his wife of 60 years, Kareitha “Kay” Forde, the Trustees of Columbia University, USA, have established an endowed professorship in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. Dr Forde was one of Columbia University’s first African American surgeons and Trustees, a remarkable Columbian who was named the José M. Ferrer Professor …