The Glenville State College Speaker Series Presents
EWUARE OSAYANDE
“John Brown’s Raid in Harpers Ferry, WV and the Legacy of Abolitionism”
Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Heflin Administration Building Presidents Auditorium Professor Osayande will also conduct a writer’s workshop from 11–12:15 p.m. in AB 304 Both events are free and open to the public
Euware Osayande is the poet Laureate at Rutgers University and the co-founder and director of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism), a grass-roots initiative that educates and empowers participants to resist oppression. He is also the creator of Project ONUS: Redefining Black Manhood. Osayande is the 2006 recipient of the Walt Whitman Arts Center’s Vanguard Writer’s Award and author of Blood Luxury, a collection of poetry. For more information, please contact
[email protected], 304-462-6322