News Release
October 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)—Moravian College
will host a talk by Dr. Manning Marable, professor of history and
political science
and founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American
Studies at Columbia University, on Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Pavilion of the Haupert Union Building. This Fall Symposium
is sponsored by the Minority Affairs Coalition of the Lehigh Valley
Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC). The presentation is free
and open to the public.
Marable’s lecture will mark his second visit to Moravian College.
He first spoke at the college in February 2001 during Black History
Month. As a leading lecturer and interpreter of politics and the history
of race in America, Marable appears regularly on television and radio
programs such as NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Weekend
News,
PBS, Fox Network News, C-Span, National Public Radio, The Charlie
Rose Show, and BBC television and radio.
Marable is the author of thirteen books, including Black
Leadership (1988), Speaking Truth to Power: Essays
on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996), and Black
Liberation in Conservative America (1997). He is
also the co-editor of The Columbia Reader of African American History (2001) and What
Black America Thinks: Race, Ideology, and Political Power (2001). In addition, Dr. Marable has written over two hundred
articles for academic journals and has edited volumes and other scholarly
publications. Since 1976, Marable has written Along the Color Line,
a syndicated commentary on African-American politics and public affairs,
which has appeared in 325 newspapers and magazines in the United States,
the United Kingdom, Canada, the Caribbean, and India.
Marable was a founding member of the Black Radical Congress, a progressive
coalition of African-American activists. He is national co-chairperson
of the Committee of Correspondence, a democratic socialist group. Marable
donates much of his time to civil rights, labor, religious, and social
justice groups.
For more information, please contact the Office
of Institutional Diversity at 610-625-7847.
