Lecture: A Call to Service
Date/Time: | Monday, 08 Feb 2010 at 8:00 pm |
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Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
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Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
Channel: | Lecture Series |
Categories: | Diversity Lectures |
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Originally known as "Cousin Jeff," Johnson earned a reputation as the "conscience voice" of BET Networks. His new book, Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am, is a call to service for the post-Civil Rights generation. Johnson has worked as senior advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, as national director of the Youth & College Division of the NAACP, and as the vice president of Russell Simmons's Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Series.