On February 10th, 2007, be prepared for Tampa Bay to sizzle with the Harlem Nights Returns rendition of the Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series, featuring the celebrated and controversial Dr. Michael Eric Dyson as the evening’s keynote speaker from 6 to 9 pm at the Grand Hyatt in Tampa (2900 Bayport Drive).

Dr. Dyson is best known for his New York Times Bestselling books such as Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?, which fueled a national debate and won the prestigious 2006 NAACP Image Award, and Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, which was optioned for a major motion picture.

Expected to draw the year’s largest gathering among black doctors, lawyers, executives, business owners and leaders, the evening will be kicked off by a celebrity-sponsored reception laced with early 20th century Harlem ambience. Organizers say the Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series Harlem Nights will be the signature event during this year’s Black History Month celebration, in part because Dr. Woodson is the original founder of the annual February commemoration.

To request an interview with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson beginning ONE WEEK PRIOR to the event please contact Gypsy Gallardo at 727-866-0873.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson Black History Month “Harlem Nights Returns”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Grand Hyatt
2900 Bayport Dr., Tampa

About the Annual Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series: Hosted by the Gamma Omicron Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity for more than 20 years, the series is named for the incomparable Dr. Carter G. Woodson, whose seminal work, The Miseducation of the Negro, first published in 1933, influenced generations of scholarship in sociology, psychology, education and economics.

About Dr. Michael Eric Dyson: Named by Essence magazine among the 40 most inspiring black Americans and by The Washington Post as a “superstar professor.” Dyson is a prolific author, scholar, media commentator whose books take on some of the toughest issues of our day, including one of his latest titles about the political and racial fallout from Katrina in Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.