WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Clarence Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, will be the Martin Luther King Jr. speaker at Purdue University on Jan. 22.
The presentation will start at 7 p.m. in Loeb Playhouse with a musical tribute to King that will feature Angela Brown and Charles Webb of the Indiana University School of Music, said Myra DeBow Mason, director of the Diversity Resource Office.
Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, has been a columnist and a member of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board since July 1984. His column is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services, and he does a twice-weekly commentary on WGN-TV, Chicago. He has been based in Washington, D.C., since May 1991.
Page is an occasional guest panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," a regular contributor of essays to the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and a host of documentaries on the Public Broadcasting System. He is a regular panelist on Black Entertainment Television's weekly "Lead Story" news panel program and a biweekly commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Sunday."
Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting for a 1976 series on the changing politics of Southern Africa. Page also participated in a 1972 Chicago Tribune Task Force series on vote fraud, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His book, "Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity," was published by HarperCollins in February.
CONTACT: Mason, (317) 494-7307
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