MEDIA ADVISORY – DECEMBER 17, 2019

SPSCC Artist & Lecture Series Presents Dr. Rich Benjamin MLK Day Lecture December 17, 2019 —OLYMPIA, Wash. South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) continues the Artist & Lecture Series with the first event of 2020, a Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture with Dr. Rich Benjamin. The lecture will be held in the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020.

Tickets for the lecture titled ‘King and “The More Perfect Union”’ are available through The Washington Center for the Performing Arts for $15 or less. The lecture is free for SPSCC students, staff, and faculty.

An optional dinner and scholarship program, led by the SPSCC Foundation and The Thurston Group of Washington State, will be held at 5 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Tickets for the dinner and lecture are available for $40.

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About Dr. Rich Benjamin Dr. Rich Benjamin is a sharp observer of modern society and politics and is the author of “Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America”. His cultural and political analysis appear regularly in public debate, including in , , , The New York Times Sunday Book Review, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, and CNN. Rich was recently a Fellow in the literary arts at the Bellagio Center (Italia), Rockefeller Foundation. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Authors Guild, the national union of writers that has been protecting authors’ rights and free speech since 1912.

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