In a Single Garment of Destiny
New Date: Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.
(Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
During the last four decades, Leonard Pitts Jr. has worked as a college professor, radio producer, syndicated columnist and lecturer. But above all else, he considers himself a writer. Focused on issues ranging from race to culture, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2004.
The title of Pitts’ speech refers to a passage from Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and became an important text for the American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s.
Free admission; please register online, call 503-370-6463, or go to Putnam University Center, 2nd floor, weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
