“This first of a series of talks on slavery and justice fulfills a challenge,” Lee said. BET can also be seen in the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET Networks is the leading provider of media and entertainment for African Americans and consumers of Black culture globally, reaching more than 120 million households including its music and entertainment brand. Lee, is a member of Brown’s Board of Trustees and the chair and chief executive officer of BET Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. The lectureship’s sponsor, 1976 Brown alumna Debra L. Lee Lectures will serve as a key component of the University’s response to the Report of the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and will bring to the University campus the most distinguished scholars of historic and contemporary issues related to the legacy of slavery in the Americas and elsewhere. used forced black laborers in Alabama coal mines in the early 20th century, an article that led to his first book, Slavery By Another Name, which broadly examines how a form of neoslavery thrived in the United States long after legal abolition. A year later, he revealed in the Journal how U.S.

during the 1960s in funneling funds between a wealthy northern white supremacist and segregationists fighting the Civil Rights Movement in the South. In 2000, the National Association of Black Journalists recognized Blackmon’s stories revealing the secret role of J.P. Many of his stories in The Wall Street Journal have explored the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct, and racial segregation. A question and answer session and a book signing will follow the lecture.īlackmon has written extensively about the American quandary of race, exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, lost episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with its troubled past. The lecture is free and open to the public. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice.ĭoors open one hour prior to the event. Blackmon’s presentation is the inaugural Debra L. Journalist and author Douglas Blackmon will give a lecture titled “A Persistent Past: Grappling with Our Troubled Racial History in the Age of Obama,” Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at 4 p.m., in Sayles Hall.

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