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Anti-racism activist Tim Wise, whom American scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls a vanilla brother in the tradition of slavery abolitionist John Brown, will speak at Walla Walla University at Tuesday.

His 6 p.m. lecture, White LIES Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear in America, is free and open to the public. Wise, nationally recognized for his book and documentary White Like Me, will discuss contemporary race relations and how to advance racial justice.

He has spoken at more than 1,000 colleges and high schools and made numerous appearances on radio and national television news programs, according to his website. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and others ways to dismantle racism in their institutions.

Most recently, he was included in a video exhibition, together with President Obama, at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

His work began when he was a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from and economic sanctions against South Africa, then under apartheid rule. After graduation he served as a youth coordinator and associate director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, among the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

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