For immediate useNov. 11, 1997 -- No. 835

Note: Please pair with Release No. 822, dated Nov. 5.

Tickets available at Carolina Union for Angela Davis' Nov. 17 talk

CHAPEL HILL -- Tickets are available for a Nov. 17 lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by 1960s and `70s black rights activist Angela Davis.

The free public lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. But those planning to attend should pick up tickets at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union box office, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 962-1449. Approximately 1,600 tickets are available. No one will be admitted without a ticket.

Davis, now a professor in African-American and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is expected to discuss student activism, prison reform and women's rights. Her talk is sponsored by UNC-CH's Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and constitutes the fourth annual Stone Memorial Lecture. Dr. Stone, who died in 1991, was a UNC-CH professor who served on the center's planning committee and advocated improved race relations on campus and in the community.

The Nov. 17 program also will feature reflections on Stone's life and legacy and performances by Harmonyx, the a cappella vocal group of the Black Student Movement at UNC-CH.

The program will be cosponsored by the African/Afro-American Studies Department, the Theta Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., the Black Student Movement, the University Program in Cultural Studies, the Institute of African American Research and the women's studies curriculum.

Davis is a member of the board of directors of the National Black Women's Health Project, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, the African American Women Philosophers and Radical Philosophy associations. Her research targets prison reform and its impact on black women.

Davis has written four books: “Women, Culture and Politics” (1989), “Women, Race and Class” (1981), “Angela Davis: An Autobiography” (1974) and “If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance” (1971). Davis also writes numerous articles for mainstream and scholarly audiences.

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Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center contact: Ange-Marie Hancock, 962-9001

News Services contact: Laura J. Toler