TITLE OF EVENT: Breaking Ranks: Why Whites Must Join the Struggle for
Racial Equality

SPEAKER: Tim Wise

DATE: Wed., Mar. 5

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: New Monumental Building (Directions: Take Douglas to 8th Street
and make a left onto 8th. Church parking lot is across from the 3000
building of UTC Place)

DESCRIPTION: Tim Wise, who describes himself as "an angry white male" who
is also an "anti-racist activist," is a Senior Advisor at the Fisk
University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN. His focus is fighting
institutional racism, sexism, and other forms of intolerance. An extremely
popular speaker, he has been described as "dynamic, passionate,
knowledgeable, and thought-provoking." He has spoken to over 75,000 people
in 42 states, including 200 college and high school campuses. Wise is
credited with contributing to the demise of ex-Klansman David Duke's
political career in Louisiana and with convincing dozens of neo-Nazi
skinheads to leave the movement after a nationally televised confrontation
with a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and
TV shows and has debated leading conservatives, including Dinesh D'Souza.
His writings have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines
nationally, and he was a featured commentator and consultant for the
three-part PBS series on race released in 2002. His latest book--Speaking
Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male--is
scheduled for publication in 2003. Wise's other books include: Little White
Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination and
Hardcover Hate. His essays have appeared in White Privilege: Essential
Readings on the Other Side of Racism, When Race Becomes Real: Award-Winning
Writers Tackle America's Most Difficult Subject, and The Reparations
Reader.

This event is open to the public, admission is free.  For more information,
please call
Dr. Elizabeth Gailey at 425-5201