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Monday, October 22, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Cecil Gray, a renowned author and activist, will give a lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30 in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
While at Knox, Gray also will meet with students in Black Studies and First-Year Preceptorial classes.
Cecil Gray is assistant professor of religion and the coordinator and chairperson of African and African-American Studies at Gettysburg College. An ordained minister and elder of the United Methodist Church, he has spoken and written widely in the area of human and community development.
Gray is currently directing a seven-year project at Africa University in Zimbabwe, training American and Zimbabwean faculty and pastors, and has collaborated for a number of years with human rights activist Sonia Sanchez.
Gray is a member of the African Heritage Studies Association and the National Council on Black Studies and chairs its Young Scholars Professional Development and Mentoring Committee. He also belongs to the World Student Christian Federation, American Academy of Religion, and the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University. He is a national board member of the U.S. branch of the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), a global human development organization, and he chaired ICA's Year 2000 Holistic Lifelong Learning Committee.
Gray has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Temple, Ohio State, and Duke.
The event is sponsored by the Knox College Office of Intercultural Life.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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