Politics and Policy in the 21st Century: Does Race Still Matter?

32nd Annual W.E.B. Dubois Lecture

Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Berry has had a distinguished career in scholarship, including nine books on African American and women's history and American justice and civil rights law, and in public service. She was a long-time member and chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Assistant Secretary for Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). She has served as a provost at UMCP, the Chancellor of the University of Colorado-Boulder and the former President of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and is the recipient of the SCLC's Rosa Parks Award and the NAACP's Roy Wilkins Award.

This event will take place in the University Center Ballroom.  For a map of campus, visit http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/

Sponsors: Department of Africana Studies and the Dresher Center for the Humanities