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CCBC Essex Spring 2005 Spotlight Speaker Series

Voted Baltimore Magazine's Best Speakers' Series in 2002

Amiri Baraka, Poet, Political Activist & teacher

Black History Month Speaker

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

12:20pm-1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater

1:30pm-2:30pm Reception, B Building  First Floor Lobby

Amiri Baraka is a poet, political activist and teacher. He is the author of
several books including "Y's,Why's, Wise," a book of poetry; and "Eulogies,"
those he has given over the last twenty years for James Baldwin, Dizzy
Gillespie, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, and many other internationally known
figures, as well as personal friends and family. Baraka also authored,
"Jesse Jackson and Black People, a collection of essays on Jackson and the
Afro American liberation struggle during the last 20 years. The University
of Connecticut presented him with the Wallace Stevens prize for Poetry in
1993 and he has also been named a "Living Legend" at the 1994 Black Drama
Festival in North Carolina. His classic study of Afro American Self
Determination, "The Black Nation" (1975) was recently re-issued. He has been
a Professor of African Studies at SUNY at Stony Brook since 1979 and has
also served four years as chair. Baraka will lecture on "Afro American Self-
Determination."


Joan Morgan, Award winning author, Journalist, & Cultural Critic

Women's History Month Speaker

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

12:20pm - 1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater

1:30pm - 2:30pm Reception, B Building First Floor Lobby

 Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author and a provocative
cultural critic. A self-confessed hip-hop junkie, she began her professional
writing career freelancing for 'The Village Voice' before having her work
published by 'Vibe,' 'Madison,' 'Interview,' 'MS,' 'More,' 'Spin,' and
numerous others. Formerly the Executive Editor of 'Essence', she is the
author of "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost", a fresh, witty, and
irreverent novel that marks the literary debut of one of the most original,
perceptive, and engaging young social commentators in America today. Her
work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music
and African-American culture. Joan Morgan joins CCBC in celebration of
Women's History Month and will lecture on "Hip Hop Feminist Ideology".


Colman McCarthy, Journalist & Professor

Ethics Day Speaker

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

12:20pm - 1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater

1:30pm - 2:30pm Reception, B Building First Floor Lobby 

Colman McCarthy is a syndicated columnist and editorial page writer for The
Washington Post, as well as an adjunct professor for Georgetown University
Law Center. He teaches a course entitled "Solutions to Violence," a subject
so important to him that he has formed a non-profit organization, The Center
for Teaching Peace, which helps schools begin or broaden peace studies
programs. Under his leadership, the center also conducts workshops and
seminars on conflict resolution and mediation. McCarthy's non-profit
organization and his writing have gotten him a lot of attention. He has had
fan mail from everyone from George McGovern to the late Barry Goldwater. The
National Review has called him "a mad-dog liberal," while The Progressive
says he is "an active-duty troublemaker . . . constantly reminding us that
we could--and should--be doing better." Those who follow the writing of
Colman McCarthy cherish him for the passion of his convictions and the
idealism of his beliefs. It is the same with his lectures. He is a
sought-after speaker on U.S. campuses because he convincingly calls on
students to defy the conventional by becoming citizens who are
other-centered, not self-centered. He argues persuasively that each of us is
called on to be a peacemaker in our personal and political lives. McCarthy
will lecture on "The Ethics of War & Violence."


For more information, contact the Office of Student Life at (410) 780-6572.

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