This Thursday, September 25th, The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will host Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture with guest speaker Dr. Cornel West. This event will be at 10 a.m. in the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts Building, J.M. Ross Theatre located on the campus of UAPB.

About Dr. Cornel West

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best know for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear brother, Travis Smiley's PBS TV Show. He can be heard weekly with Travis Smiley on "Smiley & West", the national public radio program distributed by Public Radio International (PRI).

He made his film debut in the Matrix - and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call and Response, Sidewalk and Stand. Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His recent spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard's Choices (Which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009), The Cornel West Theory's Second Rome and the Raheem DeVaughn's Love & War: Masterpeace. In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.

This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information, visit the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's website - www.uapb.edu.