National Public Radio’s JUAN WILLIAMS will speak about “Election 2008” in the next Religion and Politics Lecture held at Central Congregational Church at 7 p.m., Thursday, January 31, 2008. The church is located at 296 Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island, at the corner of Cooke and Angell Streets. The lecture is free and open to the community.
Mr. Williams is senior correspondent for NPR’s “Morning Edition: and the host of “America’s Black Forum,” a nationally syndicated weekly news program. He also is a featured political commentator for Fox News. He is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading political writers. For many years, he was an award-winning columnist for the Washington Post, and he also served as host for National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.”
He is the author of six books, including Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary; This Far by Faith: Stories from the African-American Religious Experience; My Soul Looks Back in Wonder; A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. His most recent book, published by Crown Publishers in 2006, is entitled “Enough–The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America– and What We Can Do About It.”