CAAS’s First Book Series: Khalil Gibran Muhammad — 4:15 p.m. Tues.

Please join us TODAY at 4:15 in CAAS’s Vanguard Lounge for the fourth speaker in the First Book Series.

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library will discuss The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press 2010).  Prior to joining the Schomburg, Dr Muhammad was a professor of history at Indiana University. For more on info: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/arts/18director.html

The talk will be followed by a book signing. 

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Joan Chiari in AFAM at ext: 3569.