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UNIVERSITY o
Nov. 1, 2005
Contact: Teri Rizvi
[email protected]
(937) 229-3241
DAYTON
NEWS RELEASE
NIKKI GIOVANNI, CLARENCE PAGE AND MICHAEL DYSON
HEADLINE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON'S DIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES
DAYTON, Ohio - Four nationally acclaimed writers and an environmental activist will
round out the University of Dayton 1s 2005-2006 Diversity Lecture Series.
Bebe Moore Campbell, novelist, journalist and National Public Radio 11 Morning Edition11
commentator, will offer a free talk at 3 p.m.,Tuesday, Nov. 15 in the Sears Recital Hall in
the Jesse Philips Humanities Center on campus.
Campbell wrote Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, a New York Times 1 notable book and the
winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature. Other books include Brothers and Sisters
and Singing in the Comeback Choir, a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001" that has been
optioned by Showtime with Maya Angelou as director. Campbell 1s interest in mental health
was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which won the
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. As a
journalist, she 1s written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles
Times and Ebony, as well as other publications.
Pulitzer Prize-winning and nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence
Page comes to town Jan. 16-17 to headline two community events. Page will address 11 The
March to the New Century 11 at 6:30p.m., Monday, Jan. 16, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Annual Holiday Celebration and Presidential Banquet at the Dayton Convention Center
in collaboration with the Dayton Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Council and
UD. Tickets are $50. Call (937) 268-0051 for more information. He will speak on 11 Keeping
the Dream Alive 11 at 7:30 a.m.,Tuesday, Jan. 17, at UD 1s annual Martin Luther King Jr. prayer
breakfast in the Kennedy Union Ballroom. Tickets are $8 for students, and $10 for faculty,
staff and the general public. Tickets are limited. Call Rosemary 0 1Boyle at 229-2229. Page,
born in Dayton, has worked as a columnist at the Chicago Tribune since 1984. His column is
syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services. He is an essayist for The NewsHour with
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Jim Lehrer and a member of the program 1s panel of regional newspaper editors and
columnists. He occasionally is a guest panelist on 11 The McLaughlin Group. 11
As part of Celebrate Dunbar! - a series of community events honoring the life and
work of Paul Laurence Dunbar 100 years after his death - world-renowned author and poet
Nikki Giovanni will read Dunbar 1s works as well as her own poetry at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17,
at the Victoria Theatre. She has written more than two dozen books, including volumes of
poetry, illustrated children1s books and three collections of essays. Since 1987, she has taught
writing and literature at Virginia Tech. Her appearance is co-sponsored by UD 1s English
Department and the Victoria Theatre. Tickets are $18 and $12. Call228-3630 or 229-2545.
Native American activist and author Winona LaDuke will address 11 Recovering the
Sacred: Religion, Faith and the Land from a Native Woman 1s Perspective 11 at 8 p.m., Monday,
March 6, in the Kennedy Union Ballroom. Her speech, free and open to the public, is co-
sponsored by UD 1s Distinguished Speakers Series.
The program director of Honor the Earth and the founding director of the White Earth
Land Recovery Project, LaDuke served as Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader 1s
running mate in 1996 and 2000. She was named Woman of the Year by Ms. Magazine in 1997
and won the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998. LaDuke wrote the novel Last Standing
Woman and the nonfiction book All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.
Author, scholar and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson closes out the series at 8 p.m.,
Thursday, April 6, with a free talk in the Kennedy Union Ballroom on campus.
Dyson recently wrote Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Called the nation1s preeminent spokesman for the hip-hop generation, Dyson is a prolific
author who 1s written 11 books in a dozen years. His books, most of them best sellers, include
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader, Open Mike; Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur;
Why I Love Black Women; I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.; Race
Rules: Navigating the Color Line; Between God and Gangsta Rap; Making Malcolm: The Myth and
Meaning of Malcolm X; and Reflecting Black. He is the Avalon Foundation professor in the
humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.
Troy Duster, president of the American Sociological Association, kicked off the series in
August. Previous speakers included Andrew Young and Caretta Scott King. The Diversity
Lecture Series - part of a larger strategic plan to foster inclusion and diversity on campus and
prepare students, faculty, staff and the Dayton community for success in a global society - is
co-sponsored by the offices of the president and provost with support from corporate
partners, including the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV and WDA0-1210 AM.
-30For media interviews about the series, contact Lynnette Heard, executive assistant to
the president, at (937) 229-4122.