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Telephone 609-258-3601; Fax 609-258-1301For immediate release: April 24, 2001
Contact: Jon Ophardt (609) 258-5583 or Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601
Editors: All media representatives planning to cover this event must show identification from their news organizations at the door.
Media Advisory:
Princeton hosts debate on reparations
Author of controversial advertisement debates leader of pro-reparations group
Who: David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and a noted conservative columnist; and Dorothy B. Lewis, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA).
What: Debate on whether members of the African-American should receive monetary reparations for slavery.
When: Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m. Reporters who wish to interview the speakers before the debate should arrive at 6:30 p.m. and enter through entryway 7 in McCosh Hall. They will be escorted to the meeting room.
Where: 50 McCosh Hall on the Princeton campus. Only those with Princeton University ID and accredited media will be permitted into the lecture hall. All others should go to McCosh 46 for a simulcast of the event.
Why: The catalyst for this debate was an advertisement, "Ten Reasons Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too," which Horowitz published in many college newspapers, including The Daily Princetonian. The piece has provoked controversy and emotional discussion across the country.
David HorowitzHorowitz is president of the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture and a best-selling author and editor. He began his career as editor of the left-wing Ramparts magazine during the 1960s, wrote bestsellers on prominent American families in the 1970s, and moved to the right in later years. He is a regular columnist on the Internet magazine, Frontpage.
Dorothy B. Lewis
Lewis is co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), a coalition of organizations and individuals who have come together to obtain reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in America. She has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows and spoken at college campuses and in national forums, including one held by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Lewis also has taken the reparations message to a number of African countries and to several international conferences.
American Whig-Cliosophic Society
The American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the world's oldest college political and debating society, has a long history of tackling controversial issues. The society was founded in 1769 by then-Princeton undergraduate James Madison, who would go on to author the Bill of Rights and serve as the fourth president of the United States.
For more information on the event and the speakers, visit: http://www.whigclio.princeton.edu/~speakers/reparations.html.
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