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class=046064916-07022005>posted by christine gray </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=center><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>CCBC
Essex Spring 2005 Spotlight Speaker Series</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=center><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Voted</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Baltimore
Magazine’s</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> Best Speakers’ Series in 2002</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Amiri
Baraka, Poet</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000080>,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Political
Activis</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000080>t</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"> &</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000080></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">teacher</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Black
History Month Speaker</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>Wednesday, February 9, 2005</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>12:20pm-1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=justify><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>1:30pm-2:30pm Reception, B Building First Floor
Lobby</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us> <FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=2>liberation struggle during the last
20 years.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us> <FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=2>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.”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P><BR>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Joan Morgan,
Award winning author</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000080>,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> Journalist</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000080>,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">& Cultural Critic</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Women's
History Month Speaker</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Wednesday,
March 23, 2005</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>12:20pm -
1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>1:30pm -
2:30pm Reception, B Building First Floor Lobby</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080
size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>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”.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P><BR>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Colman
McCarthy, Journalist</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000080></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><B><I> <FONT
face="Times New Roman">& Professor</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Ethics Day
Speaker</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Wednesday,
April 20, 2005</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>12:20pm -
1:15pm Lecture, B Building Theater</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>1:30pm -
2:30pm Reception, B Building First Floor Lobby </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Colman
McCarthy is a syndicated columnist and editorial page writer
for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>The Washington Post</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>, 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.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us> <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>The National Review</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=2> has called him "a mad-dog liberal,"
while</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us><I></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><I> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>The Progressive</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2> says he
is "an active-duty troublemaker . . . constantly reminding us that we could--and
should--be doing better."</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080
size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080
size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>McCarthy will lecture on “The
Ethics of War & Violence.”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P><BR>
<P align=center><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">For more
information, contact the Office of Student Life at (410)
780-6572.</FONT></B></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>