Monday,
March 1, 2004
Best-Selling
Author Michael Eric Dyson is Keynote Speaker For Lincoln University’s
Larry Neal Humanities Lecture on March 18
Dyson is a national television commentator, newspaper columnist
and author of five highly acclaimed books including, Reflecting
Black: African-American Cultural Criticism and Holler If You Hear
Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur.
Lincoln
University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)– Lincoln University–the
nation’s first Historically Black University--- will welcome
best-selling author and public intellectual Eric Michael Dyson
as the keynote speaker for its third annual Larry Neal Annual
Humanities Lecture Series on Thursday, March 18, 2004, at Mary
Dod Brown Memorial Chapel at 3:30 p.m.
Sponsored
by Lincoln’s School of Humanities and open to the public,
will also include a book signing by the speaker. Dyson is a public
orator and cultural critic whose interests cut across various
media disciplines. He is the author of five highly acclaimed books
that include: Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural
Criticism, Making Malcolm: the Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X,
Between God and Gangsta Rap, Why I Love Black Women, and his
recent best-seller, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac
Shakur.
A social
critic and Avalon Professor of Humanities at the University of
Pennsylvania, Dyson is a frequent media commentator and weekly
columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Dyson is also a regular
commentator for Tavis Smiley’s National Public Radio (NPR)
program, and an occasional contributor to the op/ed pages of The
New York Times and The Washington Post.
In addition,
Dyson has appeared on numerous television news and talk shows,
including Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America,
The Today Show and Oprah. Dyson is the fourth speaker
in the Larry Neal Lecture Series, a program of annual lectures
by distinguished scholars in memory of a noted African-American
poet and critic, Larry Neal, Lincoln class of 1961. For more information,
contact Kathy Madron, Office of the Dean of Humanities at (610)
932-8300 ext. 1252.
Located
in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Lincoln University is
nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans
with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology,
chemistry and physics); computer and informational sciences; biological
and life sciences.
The University
is in the midst of a yearlong celebration of its sesquicentennial,
or 150th anniversary. Lincoln will hold 150th anniversary galas
this spring in Washington, D.C. (April 17) and New York City (May
6). For more information on Lincoln, please visit our Web site
at lincoln.edu.
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