The College of Central Florida will host a presentation on "Civil Rights Trail and Multicultural Understanding" with Charles E. Cobb Jr., visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
The presentation will be held Monday, Nov. 8, from 1:15 to 2:25 p.m. and Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Citrus Learning and Conference Center, Room 101B, at the Citrus Campus, 3800 S. Lecanto Highway, Lecanto. He will also speak on Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Ewers Century Center at the Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road. There is no charge to attend the presentations.
Cobb is a distinguished journalist and civil rights icon. He has reported for major news media organizations on global events and is currently a senior writer and diplomatic correspondent for allAfrica.com, the leading online provider of news from and about Africa. During the 1960s, he was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Mississippi Delta. His publications include "On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail," 2008. He was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2008.
The presentations are supported by a mini-grant from the CF Teaching/Learning Institute and the CF Foundation and are presented by the CF Council on Diversity and Global Understanding. For additional information on Cobb’s visit, contact John Anene at anenej@cf.edu or 352-746-6721, ext. 6126, or Dewith Mayne at mayned@cf.edu or 352-746-6721, ext. 6127.
The presentation will be held Monday, Nov. 8, from 1:15 to 2:25 p.m. and Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in the Citrus Learning and Conference Center, Room 101B, at the Citrus Campus, 3800 S. Lecanto Highway, Lecanto. He will also speak on Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Ewers Century Center at the Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road. There is no charge to attend the presentations.
Cobb is a distinguished journalist and civil rights icon. He has reported for major news media organizations on global events and is currently a senior writer and diplomatic correspondent for allAfrica.com, the leading online provider of news from and about Africa. During the 1960s, he was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Mississippi Delta. His publications include "On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail," 2008. He was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2008.
The presentations are supported by a mini-grant from the CF Teaching/Learning Institute and the CF Foundation and are presented by the CF Council on Diversity and Global Understanding. For additional information on Cobb’s visit, contact John Anene at anenej@cf.edu or 352-746-6721, ext. 6126, or Dewith Mayne at mayned@cf.edu or 352-746-6721, ext. 6127.
