NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Author and cultural critic Kevin Powell, an original cast member of MTV‘s The Real World, will speak at Vanderbilt University on “Images of Blacks in the Media.”
Powell’s books include Who’s Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America and Keepin’ it Real: Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics.
“Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness,” said poet Nikki Giovanni.
Powell will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in Room 103A of Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Powell was born in New Jersey and educated at Rutgers University. He has published six books and is working on two others. The first, Someday We’ll All be Free, is a collection of essays on democracy, leadership and the American dream.
The second is a memoir titled homeboy alone.
The lecture is sponsored by the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University, which provides educational and cultural programming on the African and African American experience for the Vanderbilt and Nashville communities.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu