UI Hosts Diversity and Human Rights Lecture Series – Scholar Omowale Akintunde To Speak Jan. 19
Thursday, January 11 2001
Jan. 11, 2000^MOSCOW – Scholar of African American studies and multiculturalism Omowale Akintunde will present the University of Idaho’s Diversity and Human Rights Lecture Friday, Jan. 19, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Administration Auditorium. The event is part of the university’s week-long schedule of events in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Idaho Human Rights Day.^Akintunde, adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming’s Outreach School, will present “White Racism, White Privilege and the Social Construction of Race.” He will follow-up his keynote address that same day with a workshop on multicultural issues from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Idaho Commons Crest Room. ^Akintunde received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1996 and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in music education at Alabama State University. ^He is a former leadership associate for the John Goodlad Institute for Educational Inquiry at the University of Washington and a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He has taught music courses at the high school and college levels. ^In his research, Akintunde addresses race issues and influential factors such as media, religion and music (rap, in particular). His research has been published in numerous periodicals. ^Akintunde has appeared on MSNBC and the Fox News Network’s “The Crier Report” to discuss his research about teaching a Tupac Shakur course at the university level. Shakur, an acclaimed rap artist and actor, was fatally shot in 1996.^-30- le-1/11/01-STP/ADM^ For more information on UI’s celebration events for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Idaho Human Rights Day, contact University Communications and Marketing at (208) 885-6489 or e-mail lesliee@uidaho.edu.^Contact: Raúl Sánchez, special assistant to the president for Diversity and Human Rights, (208) 885-9229, diversity@uidaho.edu or Leslie Einhaus, University Communications and Marketing, (208) 885-6489 or lesliee@uidaho.edu^
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