Unclaimed Legacy: A Call to Service for the Post–Civil Rights Generation
Jeff Johnson
Monday, 08 Feb 2010 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
A journalist, social activist, and political commentator, Jeff Johnson has a commitment to fostering broad-based communication about issues related to race, politics, pop culture, and socioeconomics. Originally known as "Cousin Jeff," he has earned a reputation as the "conscience voice" of BET Networks. His new book, Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am, is a call to service for the post-Civil Rights generation. Johnson has worked as senior advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, as national director of the Youth & College Division of the NAACP, and as the vice president of Russell Simmons's Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Series.Cosponsored By:
- Black Graduate Student Association
- Black Student Alliance
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Engineering
- College of Human Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Planning Committee
- Phi Beta Sigma
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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