News Release
March 2001
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— Dr. Manning Marable,
professor of history and political science and the founding director
of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia
University, will present a lecture entitled "Politics and the History
of Race: An Analysis of the Black Vote of 2000" on Wednesday, March
28, 7:30 p.m., in Prosser Auditorium. Admission to the lecture is free
and open to the public.
The author of 12 books, Marable is one of the most widely
read black intellectuals in the United States. He has written more than
200 articles for academic journals, anthologies, and other scholarly
publications. His forthcoming books include What Black America Thinks:
Race, Ideology and Political Power, The Columbia Reader of African-American
Thought, and African-American Thought, co-edited with Leith Mullings.
Since 1976, Marable has written "Along the Color
Line," a syndicated commentary on African-American politics and
public affairs, published in 325 newspapers and magazines in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Caribbean, and India.
Marable was the founding director of Colgate University’s
African and Hispanic Studies Program from 1983 to 1986. He was the chairperson
of the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State University from 1987
to 1989, and was professor of history and political science at the University
of Colorado at Boulder from 1989 to 1993.
Marable is a regular discussant and analyst on the politics
of race in America. During 1999-2000, he appeared on The Charlie Rose
Show, ABC Weekend News, Fox Network News, C-SPAN, PBS, and the BBC.
Active in national black political and educational organizations, he
donates much of his time to labor, civil rights, religious, and social
injustice groups.
For more information contact Sharon Brown, director of
multicultural affairs at 610-861-7847. The lecture is free and open
to the public. Prosser Auditorium is located in the Haupert Union Building,
Monocacy and W. Locust Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
