MLK Series Features Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The University of West Georgia and the Center for African-American Male Research, Success and Leadership (CAAMRSL) will host the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series with guest speaker Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. The event is free and the community is invited to attend.
Glaude is an author and professor of religion at Princeton University where he teaches at the Center for African American Studies. His book, “Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America” won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize in 2002 and his most recent work, “A Shade of Blue” has received national acclaim.
Glaude is a regular commentator on Public Radio International’s “The Tavis Smiley Show” and a mentee of Dr. Cornel West, the inaugural speaker for the UWG lecture series, a professor at Princeton and an advisor to CAAMRSL.
Dr. Said Sewell, UWG associate professor of political science and director of CAAMRSL, said Glaude is a motivator.
“His level of success and youthfulness will prove that with persistence and motivation anything is possible,” said Sewell. “We are upholding our tradition of only bringing quality gentlemen to the university.”
The CAAMRSL opened in 2005 to develop and implement programs that help African American males make a successful transition to post-secondary institutions. In addition to the lecture series, the center sponsors five university institutions: the W.E.B Dubois Academic Institute, the Benjamin E. Mays Faculty/Student Luncheon, the Black Males With Initiative Program, the Bayard Rustin Community Service Program and the African American Male Learning Community.
For more information, call 678-839-4997 or visit www.westga.edu/~caamrsl.
