Brotherhood Dinner
to honor Davis, students

Dr. Angela Y. Davis, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will deliver a public lecture today at 1 p.m. in the Witherspoon Student Center Cinema as part of NC State’s 23rd annual University-Community Brotherhood Celebration.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Davis will receive the Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Award at the invitation-only Brotherhood Dinner tonight. The award honors an African-American who has made contributions to the United States as a scholar and humanitarian. Davis is being recognized for her scholarship and social activism on behalf of women’s rights. In addition, she is being recognized for her work against racism in the American criminal justice system.

In addition to Davis, six outstanding African-American students representing NC State, St. Augustine’s College and Shaw University will be honored at the dinner. Among those six are NC State students Turhan Carroll, a junior from Newport News, Va., majoring in physics and mathematics, and Nancy Zagbayon, a senior from Raleigh majoring in economics, political science and French.

The Brotherhood Dinner was established in 1982 to recognize important contributions that African-Americans have made and continue to make to the nation and the world, and to reaffirm the university’s and community’s commitment to enhancing an environment where people of different races may come to study and work together.

Previous honorees include former U.S. Rep. Eva M. Clayton; astronaut Col. Guion S. Bluford, Jr.; historian Dr. John Hope Franklin; educator and civil rights pioneer Robert Moses; Bennett College president Dr. Johnnetta Cole; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chairman Julian Bond.

Posted Dec. 9, 2005

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