8:03 a.m., Feb. 26, 2010----Nontombi Naomi Tutu will deliver the annual Louis L. Redding Lecture at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 18, in Multipurpose Rooms B and C of the Trabant University Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Tutu, the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will speak on the topic “Truth and Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds of Racism.”

The challenges of growing up black and female in apartheid South Africa has led Tutu to become and activist for human rights. Her experiences teach us how much people lose when judged purely on physical attributes.

In Tutu's speeches, she blends the passion for human dignity with humor and personal stories.

Tutu has served as a development consultant in West Africa and a program coordinator for programs on Race and Gender and Gender-Based Violence in Education at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. She has also taught at the universities of Hartford and Connecticut and at Brevard College.

The Louis L. Redding Lecture honors the late renowned civil rights lawyer Louis Lorenzo Redding, the first African-American to be admitted to the Delaware Bar.

The lecture and a reception to follow are sponsored by the University of Delaware Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural Diversity.

For more information, call (302) 831-8063.