Lecture to Commemorate Black History Month

Carlisle, PA (January 20, 2004) — In commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and
Black History Month, The Penn State Dickinson School of Law will host a presentation at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 4 in the Café Per Se of Trickett Hall, 150 South College Street, Carlisle.

Guest speaker Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the Avalon Professor in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania in Religion and Africana Studies and an award-winning author and scholar, will present a lecture entitled, “Why We Can’t Wait: The Need for Social Transformation.”

A book signing will immediately follow the lecture. Books are on sale in the law school bookstore.

Dyson, a leading cultural critic, social analyst and media consultant, has authored several award-winning books, including Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X, I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr., Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, and Why I Love Black Women. He is also a weekly newspaper columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times and a weekly radio commentator for Tavis Smiley's NPR program.

An ordained Baptist preacher from Detroit, Dyson earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and
has taught at Brown University, the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Columbia University.

Admission is free of charge. For more information, call (717) 240-5217.