Gwen Ifill

{Thanks, AP}

Award-winning journalist Gwen Ifill and respected law professor Sherrilynn Ifill are teaming up to kick off a new lecture series at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library next week.

Gwen is a senior correspondent for PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and will become a rotating co-anchor in the fall); she also serves as moderator of PBS’s Washington Week.

Sherrilyn Ifill

{Thanks, University of Maryland}

Her “brilliant little cousin” as she calls her, Sherrilyn is a well-known law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.

The lecture is titled “Talking About Race Now: How To Build Success Without Forgetting The Struggle”.

The lecture is free of charge and will be held Thursday, June 4 at 7 p.m. at the Pratt’s Central Branch located at 400 Cathedral Street, downtown.

Both women have a Baltimore connection Sherrilyn of course teaches here and Gwen was once a reporter for  the old “Baltimore Evening Sun”.

Gwen Ifill is the author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”.

Sherrilyn Ifill is the author of “On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century”.

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