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Telecommunications Rip-Off: A Boon to Consumers...or a Boondoggle for the Conglomerates? - Jim Hightower
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jim Hightower's self-described "kickass populist" talk radio show was carried by 150 affiliates until it was dropped after ABC's merger with Disney this summer. he still provides daily commentary on more than 75 stations nationwide; has started a newsletter, Hightower Lowdown, and a book there'[s Nothing in the middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. he was Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and served as editor of the Texas Observor. Part of the National Affairs Series - Reexaming the American Dream

Who Controls the Media? Jim Hightower, Michael Gartner & Dennis Ryerson
All Day – Memorial Union - Panelists include former Texas Secretary of Agriculture Jim Hightower, Ames Tribune publisher and owner Michael Gartner and Des Moines Register editor Dennis Ryerson. Institute on National Affairs - Reexaming the American Dream.

Race Rules ( Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration) - Michael Dyson
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Religion and the Media and Being Catholic - Margaret Steinfels
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Your Professor's War Againt The Mind; The Black Hole of Postmodernism and Multi-Culturalism - Gary Hull
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

A Conversation on Race: Is This a Nation Divided? A Panel Discussion
12:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Panel members are Mary Sawyer, associate professor of religious studies, and seniors Theaster Gates and Laurisha McClarin. Modupe Labode, assistant professor of history, will moderate the discussion. Part of the Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., Celebration.

A Nation Divided - Panel
All Day – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Panelsits include Mary Sawyer, Theaster Gates, and Laurisha McClarin. Modupe Labode will moderate. From the University Lecture Program archive.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration - ISU Birthday Party
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration - Rally and Freedom March
All Day – Beardshear Steps - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

African American Women in the Suffrage Movement - Nell Irvin Painter
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Nell Irvin Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of Sojourner Truth, a Life, a Symbol; Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction and The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South. Part of Women's History Month