Multicultural Affairs
Melissa Harris-Lacewell Lecture
7 p.m., Friday, February 19, Vollum lecture hall
Melissa Harris-Lacewell is an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton, 2004) and the forthcoming book Sister Citizen: A Text For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough (forthcoming, Yale University Press). She appears regularly on MSNBC and is a frequent contributor to The Nation online.