Journalist Juan Williams to Speak at 5 P.M.
November 17 at UCSD’s Mandeville Theatre

November 1, 2006

By Pat JaCoby

Juan Williams

Emmy award-winning writer, radio and television correspondent and author Juan Williams will speak on Enough:The Culture of Failure Undermining Black America at the University of California, San Diego, from 5-6 p.m. Nov. 17 in Mandeville Auditorium.

Sponsored by Thurgood Marshall College and the African American Studies Minor, the lecture is free and open to the public. A book signing for Williams’ current best seller, Enough, will follow. In this 2006 book, Williams makes the case that while there still is racism in the U.S., it is way past time for African Americans to open their eyes to the “culture of failure” that exists within their community.

Williams is author of the critically acclaimed biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, released in paperback in 2000, and the nonfiction bestseller, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, a companion volume to the television series of the same name. This Far by Faith: Stories from the African-American Religious Experience, appeared in 2003 and was the basis for a six-part public broadcasting TV documentary. In 2004, Williams became involved with AARP’s Voices of Civil Rights project, leading a veteran team of reporters and editors in the production of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience.

From 2000-2001, Williams hosted National Public Radio’s national call-in show, Talk of the Nation, bringing the program to cities and towns across America for monthly radio “town hall” meetings before live audiences. Earlier, he spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where he served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist and White House reporter.

Williams continues to be a contributing political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday. He also has appeared on numerous television programs, including Nightline, Washington Week in Review, Oprah, CNN’s Crossfire, and Capitol Gang Sunday.

For additional information call 858 534-4002.

 

Media Contact: Pat JaCoby, 858 534-7404