ANNOUNCEMENT! AMIRI BARAKA!

Amiri Barak will be on campus today, and is giving a talk tonight.  I'm trying to make sure as many people know about his visit as possible.  Here are the first couple of paragraphs from the KU press release:

LAWRENCE — Amiri Baraka, a poet, playwright, novelist, music critic and political activist, will give a public lecture and poetry reading next month at the University of Kansas.

Baraka will speak on “Racism, Imperialism and the Obama Presidency” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The lecture and reading are free. It will be his second appearance at KU since 2002.

Also, this is the link to the press release.

I'm really excited that he'll be coming to campus.  I think it will be an interesting talk.