Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture: Leonard Pitts Jr. & 'Race in America' – Sept. 24

Thursday, September 24
Leonard Pitts Jr., “Race in America”
McCrary Theatre, 7 p.m.

Admission: $13 or Elon ID.

There will be a waiting list on the evening of the event. Staff will at that time fill any available seats due to no-shows and others who find that they are unable to attend at the last minute. Staff will begin taking names for a waiting list at the Center for the Arts Box Office at 6 p.m. on Sept. 24.

You must be present to get on the list. You must be present if your name is called for a ticket. Staff will call names in the order that they are entered on the list. 

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A former writer for Casey Kasem’s radio program “American Top 40,” Leonard Pitts, Jr. was a pop music critic at the Miami Herald where he began writing about race and current affairs in his own column. Today, his Miami Herald newspaper column on pop culture, social issues and family life is syndicated in more than 150 daily newspapers.

In 2002, Pitts won the top prize for commentary in the Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Awards program for a collection of entries, including those following the World Trade Center terror attacks. Two years later, was he was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for the same column.

He is also the author of the bestseller “Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood,” a poignant account of the nature and meaning of black fatherhood in the contemporary United States.

Pitts’ column has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others. He is a three-time recipient of the National Headliners Award.