On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 in observance of Black History Month at the
Central City Complex 7:30p.m. Roy L. Brooks will be our guest speaker.

Professor Brooks a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of
Connecticut, instructs students on matters of civil procedure, affirmative
action, employment discrimination, and civil rights.  His engaging lectures
on"black self-help" are provocative, educational, and inspiring.  Brooks is
the author of numerous articles and books, including the influenetial and
controversial work, "Rethinking the American Race Problems."

Roy L. Books is an internationally renown scholar on reparations.  His
specialty is Black Reparations, although he has also written about other
reparation movements within the United States, as well as in other
countries.  Professor Brooks has given speeches and taught classes on Black
Reparations at colleges and universities both domestically and abroad.  He
has given talks at international human rights centers abroad, and has
appeared as a guest on several radio rograms in the United States.  His
book on reparations, "When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over
Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice," is a Thorsnes Prize in
scholarship winner for the year 2000.

Brooks currently teaches civil rights, employment discrimination,
litigation, and legal theory courses at the University if San Diego as
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law.