Black History Month Closing Keynote Address

Fulton Chapel

Clint Smith, National Poetry Slam champion and Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, is the keynote speaker for Black History Month observances Feb. 26 at the University of Mississippi. Smith is a writer, teacher and doctoral candidate at Harvard University studying education, incarceration and inequality. He has taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year in 2013 by the Maryland Humanities Council. Admission is free, but tickets must be obtained from the Ole Miss Box Office in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts beginning Feb. 1. Co-sponsors for the university’s BHM observances include University Lecture Series, Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Community Engagement, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, School of Education, Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of African American Studies, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Black Student Union.