The Glenville State College Speaker Series Presents

EWUARE OSAYANDE

“John Brown’s Raid in Harpers Ferry, WV

and the Legacy of Abolitionism”
Thursday, October 15, 2009
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
in the Heflin Administration Building Presidents Auditorium
Professor Osayande will also conduct a writer’s workshop
from 11–12:15 p.m. in AB 304

Both events are free and open to the public

Euware Osayande is the poet Laureate at Rutgers University and the co-founder and
director of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism), a grass-roots
initiative that educates and empowers participants to resist oppression. He is also the
creator of Project ONUS: Redefining Black Manhood. Osayande is the 2006 recipient
of the Walt Whitman Arts Center’s Vanguard Writer’s Award and author of Blood
Luxury, a collection of poetry.

For more information, please contact Jonathan.Minton@glenville.edu, 304-462-6322