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Tavis
Smiley and Cornel West to Lecture at
Dillard
University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Lecture, Q&A,
Book Signing, Free and Open to the Public
(New
Orleans) On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Dillard University will host an evening
with two of the preeminent leaders in African-American thought today, Tavis
Smiley and Cornel West. The event, part of the authors’ Poverty Manifesto
lecture series in conjunction with the High Quality Speakers Bureau, will
feature addresses by Smiley and West, followed by an audience Q&A, and a
signing of their 2012 book “The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto.”
It will begin at 7 p.m. on Jan. 21 in Lawless Memorial Chapel. It is free and
open to the public.
Smiley is
the host of “Tavis Smiley” on PBS, as well as the syndicated radio programs
“The Tavis Smiley Show” and “Smiley & West.” He is the first American to
simultaneously host talk shows on both public TV and public radio. He has
authored 15 books, including “Covenant with Black America,” which became the
first non-fiction book by a Black-owned publisher to reach No. 1 on the New
York Times bestseller list. In 2009, Time magazine named him to its list of the
World’s 100 Most Influential People.
West is a
professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary
and professor emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale,
Harvard and the University of Paris. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton. He
has written 20 books and edited 13. He is best known for his classics “Race
Matters” and “Democracy Matters,” and his memoir “Brother West: Living and
Loving Out Loud.” He appears frequently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “The
Colbert Report,” CNN and C-SPAN. He has appeared in over 25 documentaries and
films and made three spoken word albums.
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