Northrop, University of Minnesota

Fourth Annual NOMMO African American Authors Series

Where: Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
When: All events begin at 7:30 p.m. Dates detailed below.
Tickets: Each event: $10
Complimentary tickets available for U of M students and members of the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Call or visit the Northrop Ticket Office at 612-624-2345 or Room 105 Northrop, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday. Student I.D. or membership number is required.

In this series, host and moderator Alexs Pate, University of Minnesota professor and author of Amistad, takes you on a journey into the consciousness of three luminary writers. These dynamic events feature the authors reading from their work and engaging in spirited dialogue with Pate about the state of the art of African American literature.


	Amiri Baraka April 30, 2008 Cowles Auditorium SOLD OUT Complimentary tickets available for U of M students and members of the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Call or visit the Northrop Ticket Office at 612-624-2345 or Room 105 Northrop, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Friday. Student I.D. or membership number is required.
	Amiri Baraka is the controversial and iconoclastic author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music criticism, inluding The Essence of Reparations, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, and the Obie Award-winning play Dutchman. He is also a revolutionary political activist and founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s. His creative and critical work is groundbreaking in its exploration of racism, notional oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism, self-determination, and national and human liberation. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and the prestigious Langston Hughes Award.