Feb. 2 2006: LaTina Lewis & Daymond Glenn

LaTINA LEWIS and DAYMOND GLENN will team up for a special talk regarding the African American experience in education.

LaTina Lewis is a Staff Department Specialist in the Lewis & Clark Graduate School, and the producer of a documentary that recently aired on OPB. The documentary, entitled "The Forgotten Ducks", tells the story of the first African American football player students to attend University of Oregon in 1927. For more information about the film and LaTina, see: http://odp.uoregon. edu/projects/04- 05/forgotten/index. html, and http://www.lclark. edu/cgi-bin/shownews. cgi?1132692960.0.

Daymond Glenn is a Doctor of Education student at Lewis & Clark. He is also an adjunct instructor here, and a current Oregon Center Scholar. Daymond will address "The Contemporary Black Intellectual Response to Social Injustice." He has spoken in many college classrooms about Social Justice/Anti-Racist Education, African American Leadership, African American men in higher education, and the contemporary Black intellectual movement. His current focus of study is the connection between inequities/injustice and systems, particularly race. Daymond's other academic interests include: community leadership, social and dialogue theory, the contemporary Black intellectual movement, and popular culture analysis.