Tuesday, February 20, 2007
"Diversity and Democracy in American Education:
Making Multiculturalism Work"

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture

Manning Marable is one of America's most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Marable has been a professor of public affairs, political science, and history at Columbia University where from 1993 to 2003, he was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Under his leadership, the Institute became one of the nation's most prestigious centers of scholarship on the black American experience.

Marable received his AB degree from Earlham College and his PhD in American History from the University of Maryland. Before Columbia University, he was the founding director of Colgate University's Africana and Latin American Studies Program; chair of the black studies department at Ohio State University; and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A prolific author, Marable has written over 275 articles in academic journals and edited volumes. He has written or edited nearly twenty books and scholarly anthologies. Most recently, Marable wrote Living Black History, a fresh look at the legacy of well-known figures of the civil rights movement. For almost three decades, Marable has written a political commentary series, "Along the Color Line," that appears in over four hundred newspapers and journals worldwide.

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