Vol. 18, No. 20	Feb. 18, 1999

Manning Marable to speak Feb. 24

Manning Marable, founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and a history professor at Columbia University, will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Multipurpose Room C of the Trabant University Center. The program is part of the 1999 African Consciousness Celebration, and the talk is free and open to the public.

The author of 12 books, Marable one of the most widely read black intellectuals in the United States. He has written more than 200 articles for academic journals, anthologies and other scholarly publications. His forthcoming books include What Black America Thinks: Race, Ideology and Political Power, The Columbia Reader of African-American Thought and, co-edited with Leith Mullings, African-American Thought.

Since 1976, Marable has written "Along the Color Line," a syndicated commentary on African-American politics and public affairs, published in 325 newspapers and magazines in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, the Caribbean and India.

Marable was the founding director of Colgate University's African and Hispanic Studies Program from 1983 to 1986.

He was the chairperson of the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State University from 1987 to 1989, and was also a professor of history and political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1989 to 1993.

Marable is a regular discussant and analyst on the politics of race in America. In the past year, he has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, ABC Weekend News, Fox Network News, C-SPAN, PBS and the BBC.

Active in national black political and educational organizations, he donates much of his time to labor, civil rights, religious and social injustice groups. His current projects include a national public opinion survey of African-Americans' political views; editing the institute's journal, Race and Reason; and completing a major political biography of Malcolm X.

Marable's lecture is sponsored by Center for Black Culture.

For more information, call 831-2991 or send e-mail to <cbs@mvs.udel.edu>.

-Laura Overturf