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ATLANTA, March 24, 2003--The Leadership Center at Morehouse College
presents The Coca-Cola Leadership Lecture Series, featuring National
Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley, who will speak on “The
State of Black Leadership: Ethical Issues and Challenges.”
Who: Tavis Smiley
What: The Coca-Cola Leadership Lecture Series
When: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:00 p.m.
Where: Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel
830 Westview Drive, SW
(on the campus of Morehouse College)
Tavis Smiley has been called one of the most political voices of
his generation. Selected as one of America’s 50 most promising young
leaders by Time magazine, Smiley is making waves across many mediums.
As host of The Tavis Smiley Show from NPR, Smiley is the first African
American to host his own signature talk show in the history of National
Public Radio. Smiley also hosts The Smiley Report for the ABC Radio
Network, which is heard daily on urban contemporary radio stations
across the nation. He is also a regular contributor on the nationally
syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show, on which he appears twice weekly.
Smiley is the founder of the nonprofit organization, the Tavis Smiley
Foundation, which serves to encourage, empower and enlighten African-American
youth. He has authored six books including his most recent, Keeping
the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing and Hope from Black
America.
Smiley has provided analysis and contributed special reports on
ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, C-SPAN, PBS, NBC’s
the Today show and CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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Ranked twice as the number
one college in the nation for educating African-American students
by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation’s
largest, private liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867,
the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor’s
degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world.
Morehouse is one of only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities
to produce two Rhodes Scholars.
Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S.
Surgeon General and director of the National Center for Primary
Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine; Sheldon “Spike” Lee,
filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions;
Maynard H. Jackson, president of Jackson Securities and the first
African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first
African-American Rhodes Scholar from an Historically Black College
or University.
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2003 Morehouse College. All Rights Reserved
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