Black History Month Extravaganza featuring Melissa Harris-Perry has sold out

(Editor's note: Organizers report that the Feb. 19 presentation by Melissa Harris-Perry is at capacity, and no additional tickets will be available.)

1:06 p.m., Jan. 27, 2015--Melissa Harris-Perry, professor, author and host of a popular show on MSNBC, will be the featured speaker in the Black History Month Extravaganza 2015 to be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center at the University of Delaware.

The title of the talk, which is being presented by the University’s Center for Black Culture, is “Voice and Activism.”

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Host of the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, she is a professor at Wake Forest University, her alma mater, and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race and Politics in the South.

Harris-Perry is author of the well-received book Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America, published in 2011 by the Yale University Press, and of Barbershops, Bibles and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, which won the 2005 W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

She is a columnist for The Nation and provides expert commentary on U.S. elections, racial issues, religious questions and gender concerns for a variety of other media outlets.

Harris-Perry received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Wake Forest University and a doctorate in political science from Duke University. Her research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the multiple and creative ways that African American respond to these challenges.

Pre-signed books will be available for purchase.

The presentation is sponsored by the Parents Fund, the Office of Student Life, the Office of Equity and Inclusion, Student Wellness and Health Promotion, Residence Life and Housing, the Cultural Programming Advisory Board with support from the Black Student Union, Mu Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and the departments of Black American Studies and Political Science and International Relations.

For additional information, call the Center for Black Culture at 302-831-2991 or visit the website.

For a flyer about the event, click here.