Noted Expert on Racism and Effects on Black Male Children to Speak at Morgan Lecture Series

Morgan State University's Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and the IUR's The Warrior Institute welcomes Dr. Frances Cress Welsing as the keynote speaker for the "Sengbeh Pieh Lecture Series", Friday, April 16, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. at Morgan State University's Schaefer Engineering Building, located north of the main campus on Perring Parkway.

The "Sengbeh Pieh ( pronounced Shingbay Pee-ah ) Lecture Series" is dedicated to one of the most famous graduates of the Poro Society, whose insurrection on the slave ship Amistad sparked the first and most successful "civil rights" case in the United States. The "Amistad Incident" symbolizes the spirit, the resilience and the resistance of African men and women.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, one of the world's foremost experts on racism and its effect on our Afrikan male children," shares like views with Dr. Ray Winbush, Founder of THE WARRIOR INSTITUTE and author of The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys .

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing of the Cress Welsing Institute of Psychiatry and Social Research in Washington, DC is a world-renowned scholar, psychiatrist and best selling author of THE ISIS PAPERS: The Keys to the Colors . Her definitive Cress Theory of Color Confrontation is the most definitive explanation of the origin, nature and manifestations of White Supremacy ( www.thecode.net/welsinginstitute ).

The Institute for Urban Research's WARRIOR INSTITUTE www.thewarriorinstitute.org ) was established in January 2004 by Dr. Ray Winbush, Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, and Ms. Blanche Williams, with a $50,000 grant from The Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation.

Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a coeducational institution offering more than 60 academic programs leading to bachelor's degrees as well as programs at the master's and doctoral levels. As Maryland's public urban university, Morgan serves a multi-ethnic and multi-racial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information on Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.