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Talk on 'Racism and Hope' set March 21 3:34 p.m., March 16, 2007--A lecture by Bill E. Lawson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, is set for 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, in 127 Memorial Hall. Lawson's lecture, “Derrick Bell, the Permanence of Racism, and Hope,” will address the “permanence of discrimination” toward blacks in the United States and will look at what could change in the future. Lawson received his doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the first African-American to chair an academic department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware. He currently is working on a book about relationships between black communities and police in the United States. Part of UD's Distinguished Lecture Series in Black American Studies, the talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call (302) 831-2897. |