1:53 p.m., Feb. 28, 2008--Frank Wu, dean of the School of Law at Wayne State University, will deliver UD's annual Louis L. Redding Diversity Lecture from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, March 13, in the Trabant University Center Theatre. His topic is “Race in America: Beyond Black and White.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

A graduate of John Hopkins University and the University of Michigan Law School, Wu is a prominent civil rights lawyer and advocate.

The author of Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White and coauthor of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese Internment, Wu has written articles on civil rights that have appeared in several of the country's leading newspapers.

He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Now with Bill Moyers, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, the Voice of America and others. He also has hosted episodes of Asian America, a PBS-syndicated television show.

Wu also was chosen from a national pool of nominees to receive the 2008 Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific Fund, honoring the late chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley.

The lecture is sponsored by UD's Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs and honors the late renowned civil rights lawyer Louis Lorenzo Redding, the first African-American to be admitted to the Delaware Bar. For more information, call (302) 831-8735.