Julian Bond to Give Human Rights Talk

Civil rights leader Julian Bond will deliver the eighth annual Human Rights Lecture tonight at Soka University of America.

Bond, chairman of the board of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, will discuss “Race and Rights in the New Millennium” as part of the university series that annually presents prominent speakers to address the struggle for peace, social justice and reform.

A lifelong civil rights activist, Bond was one of several hundred students from across the South who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and later went on to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives. He is a prolific writer and commentator who has narrated several documentaries, including the Academy Award-winning “A Time for Justice” and the critically acclaimed series “Eyes on the Prize.”

His lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Soka’s Minuteman Hall, 26800 W. Mulholland Highway. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.