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Nov. 30, 2005

Davis to be Honored at NC State’s Annual Brotherhood Celebration

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Angela Davis

Dr. Angela Y. Davis, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will deliver a public lecture on Friday, Dec. 9, at 1 p.m. in the Witherspoon Student Center Cinema as part of North Carolina State University’s 23rd annual University-Community Brotherhood Celebration.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Witherspoon Student Center is located at the corner of Cates Avenue and Dan Allen Drive on NC State’s main campus.

Davis will receive the Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Award at the Brotherhood Dinner later that evening. 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. The dinner is by invitation only.

In addition to Davis, six outstanding African-American students representing NC State, St. Augustine’s College and Shaw University will be honored at the Brotherhood Dinner.

Students being honored at this year’s dinner are:

NC State: Turhan Carroll of Newport News, Va., a junior majoring in physics and mathematics; and Nancy Zagbayou of Raleigh, a senior majoring in economics, political science and French.

Shaw: Fabrice Blackson of Norcross, Ga., a senior majoring in chemistry; and Donald Mitchell Jr., of Portsmouth, Va., a senior majoring in chemistry.

St. Augustine’s: Anovia Daniels of Lacey, Wash., a junior majoring in communications; and Kevin Perry of Largo, Md., a senior majoring in computer science.

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.

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