Author, CNN commentator and New York Times columnist Charles Blow will deliver the University of Idaho’s inaugural Africana Studies Distinguished Speakers lecture online at 5 p.m. March 23, with registration at bit.ly/UIBlow.
Blow’s columns focus on social justice, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control and the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a UI news release. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” and his latest work, “The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto,” provides insights into thinking about race and geography.
Blow, who has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Grambling State University in Louisiana and an honorary doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, draws on political observations and personal experience to offer a roadmap for Black people to embrace opportunities on their own terms.
