For Immediate Release
January 30, 2009

University of San Francisco Professor of Politics to Lecture on "The Audacity of Hope"

The event kicks off the Cañada College celebration of Black History Month.

University of San Francisco Professor James Taylor will lecture on "The Audacity of Hope: Thinking Against the Odds" to help kick off the celebration of Black History Month at Cañada College. Taylor's lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 3 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Main Theater, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City.

Taylor's lecture will examine how audacious thinking - while viewed outside the mainstream - can have a democratizing effect, as seen in the recent election of America's first black president, Barack Obama. Discussion will also focus on the audacious efforts of various civil rights leaders and organizations for integration and civil rights.

Taylor is a professor of poltics at USF. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Associated Students of Cañada College. For more information, call (650) 306-3364.

For more information, contact Robert Hood, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, at hoodr@smccd.edu or 306-3340