Marc Lamont Hill, the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN, will present the lecture, “Promoting Diversity in Education,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 21, at Burt Kahn Court in the Athletic and Recreation Center at Quinnipiac University. This event is free and open to the public.
Hill, a distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, has been a social justice activist and organizer since his days growing up in Philadelphia. An award winning journalist, he is the former host of the nationally syndicated television show, “Our World with Black Enterprise,” and the inaugural host of “Huff Post Live,” as well as a former political contributor to Fox News Channel.
Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning “Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity;” “The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America;” “Nobody: America’s War on Its Vulnerable from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond” (July 2016); and “Gentrifier” (June 2016). He has also published two edited books: “Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility;” and “Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education.”
