THE AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY AND SPEC PRESENT:

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An Evening with
BARATUNDE THURSTON

Friday, May 25th


Dinner

in Cutter-Shabazz 5:00PM


Comedy Show and Book Signing

at One Wheelock 8:00PM



Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics<http://jackandjillpolitics.com/>

and serves as Director of Digital for The Onion<http://theonion.com/>. He has written for Vanity Fair and the UK Independent, hosted Popular Science’s Future Of on

Discovery Science and appears on cable news regularly to say smart things in funny ways. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need

to know." Baratunde travels the world speaking and advising and performs standup regularly in NYC. He resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter and

has over 30 years experience being black. His first book, How To Be Black<http://baratunde.com/howtobeblack>, will be published in February 2012 by Harper Collins.



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