Black History Month Events
 Rebecca Walker
When: Thursday, February 8, 2007 7:00 p.m.
Where: Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Cost: Free
About: An Evening with Rebecca Walker: Being Black, White, and Jewish
Rebecca Walker is a best-selling author, an acclaimed speaker and teacher, and an award-winning visionary and activist in the fields of multicultural identity, intergenerational feminism, enlightened masculinity, and transformational human awareness. She is the daughter of Alice Walker and in 2002 wrote her memoir entitled, "Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self." The book became an international bestseller and won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. In 1995, she wrote, "To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism," an anthology that remains in print after more than ten years. When she was just twenty-five, Time magazine named her one of fifty most influential future leaders of America--an award which has since been followed by many others.
For more information contact Ethnic Student Services at: 503-768-7051 or email: ethnic@lclark.edu
 Robin D.G. Kelley
When: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:00 p.m.
Where: Council Chamber
Cost: Free
About: A Joyful Noise: Radical Spirituality and Modern Jazz
Robin D.G. Kelley is one of America's most thought-provoking academics lauded by Cornel West as "the preeminent historian of black popular culture writing today". Kelley has a reputation as a passionate and engaging speaker. At the age of 32, he became one of the youngest full professors in the United States. A professor of History and African and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, he has authored numerous books including "Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class" (1994), "Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970" (1996), and "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" (2002). Prior to his appointment at USC, he served as the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University and was chair of the History department and professor of History and Africana Studies at New York University.
Any questions may be directed to the Ethnic Student Services office at ethnic@lclark.edu or 503-768-7051.
Gospel Concert
When: Sunday, February 18, 2005 7:00 p.m.
Where: Flanagan Chapel
Cost: Free
About: The Annual Gospel Concert will be held on Sunday, February 27, 2005 in Flanagan Chapel. The program begins at 7:00 PM. Featured groups TBA.
Contact: BSU
bsu@lclark.edu
Dean of Chapel/ Black Student Union/ Ethnic Student Services
 Kwame Anthony Appiah
When: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:00 p.m.
Where: Agnes Flanagan Chapel
About: Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. An internationally known scholar, he has also taught at Harvard University, Duke University, Cornell University, and Yale University. He has published widely in the area of African and African American literary and cultural studies. In 1992, he wrote "In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture". He is also the author of "Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann; 1992), "The Ethics of Identity" (2004), and the critically acclaimed, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" (2004). He has also written three novels and co-edited "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" (with Henry Louis Gates Jr.; 1999).
 Jamie Washington
When: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Where: Smith Hall-Albany Building
Cost: Free
About: We're All in This Together: Coaltion Building Across Difference
Jamie Washington is a nationally known speaker, consultant, and a trainer on diversity leadership. He serves as the President and Founder of the Washington Consulting Group, a Multicultural Organizational Development firm out of Baltimore, Maryland. He served as an educator and administrator in higher education for over 18 years. He most recently served as the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has been an instructor in Sociology, American Studies and Education, and an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at UMBC. Some of his honors include a Mayoral Citation as one of Baltimore's Men of the Year, the 2001 American College Personnel Association Diamond Honoree award for significant contributions to higher education and student affairs work, and a 2002 Voices of Inclusion Award for his work in the area of social justice education.
For more information contact Ethnic Student Services at: 503-768-7051 or email: ethnic@lclark.edu
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