Charles M. Blow, the visual op-ed columnist at The New York Times, will speak at the University of Missouri campus Wednesday, Jan. 26, as part of the university’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 2011.
His speech, “A Lie Cannot Live: Rescuing Honest Political Debate From Apathy & Disengagement,” begins at 7 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Stotler Lounge. The speech is free and open to the public.
Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director, a position he held for nine years. Before coming to The Times, he was a graphic artist at The Detroit News. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a bachelor’s degree in mass communications.
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