Pulitzer Prize winner Leon Dash to speak at AHS

Date: Wednesday, April 2
Time: 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: UIC Student Center West, 828 S. Wolcott St.

In September 1994, a series of eight provocative stories appeared, one each day, in the Washington Post. The stories described in intimate detail the hardship, poverty and sorrow experienced by D.C. resident Rosa Lee Cunningham and her family. Through her story, journalist Leon Dash painted an alarming picture of the forces bearing down on disadvantaged minority families in our nation’s cities.

Dash won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for the series and, based on the material, he went on to write a book, Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America. On the evening of April 2, Dash will speak at AHS about his book and his experience with the Cunningham family.

Please save the date to come back to campus for this enlightening event. The lecture is presented by the AHS Urban Allied Health Academy, a leadership development program designed to enrich students’ understanding of, and skills for addressing, health issues particular to urban populations.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Please R.S.V.P. by March 26. To do so, or to ask questions or make access requests, contact Mara Levin at mlevin7@uic.edu or (312) 355-5295. Parking is available at the Wood Street Parking Structure (WSPS), 1100 S. Wood.

The lecture is presented by the AHS Urban Allied Health Academy, a leadership development program designed to enrich students’ understanding of, and skills for addressing, health issues particular to urban populations.