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Caption: Marc Lamont Hill, host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN, will lecture at Quinnipiac University at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 21.
Marc Lamont Hill, host of BET News, to lecture at Quinnipiac University March 21
Hamden, Conn. – Feb. 25, 2016 - Marc Lamont Hill, the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN, will present the lecture, “Promoting Diversity in Education,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 21, at Burt Kahn Court in the Athletic and Recreation Center at Quinnipiac University, 275 Mount Carmel Ave. This event is free and open to the public. This lecture was originally scheduled for Feb. 15, but was postponed because of weather.
Hill, a distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, has been a social justice activist and organizer since his days growing up in Philadelphia. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. He also is a board member and organizer of the Philadelphia Student Union. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Over the past few years, he has actively worked on campaigns to end the death penalty and to release numerous political prisoners.
An award winning journalist, Hill is the former host of the nationally syndicated television show, “Our World with Black Enterprise,” and the inaugural host of “Huff Post Live,” as well as a former political contributor to Fox News Channel. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In 2011, Ebony Magazine named him one of America’s 100 most influential black leaders.
Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning “Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity;” “The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America;” “Nobody: America’s War on Its Vulnerable from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond” (July 2016); and “Gentrifier” (June 2016). He has also published two edited books: “Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility;” and “Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education.”
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Hill holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics and education.
For more information, call 203-582-8652.
Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,784 full-time undergraduate and 2,884 graduate and part-time students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s “Best Colleges” issue. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 380 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visitwww.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.
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