Dillard University News January 13, 2015 Dillard’s Brain Food Lecture to Feature Jason Riley, Author and Member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board ________________________________ On Monday, January 26, 2015, author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed, will deliver the first Brain Food Lecture of 2015 in Georges Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Dillard’s campus. A book signing will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. In his recent book, Please Stop Helping Us (2014), Riley examines how many well-intentioned government programs are really hurting black Americans rather than helping them. For example, he argues that minimum wage laws actually price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force and that affirmative action in higher education has resulted in fewer black college graduates. Riley purports that the current methods and approaches to helping the socioeconomic advancement of blacks are not working. In 2008, his book Let Them In, argued for a more free-market oriented U.S. immigration policy. Riley sits on the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal where he has been employed since 1994. He has written opinion pieces on politics, economics, education, immigration and race, among other subjects. He has also worked for USA Today and the Buffalo News. Riley has appeared as a commentator on Fox News for more than a decade. A native of Buffalo, New York, riley earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York. Seats are on a first come basis. For more information go to @BrainFood, visit www.dillard.edu<http://www.dillard.edu/> or call 504.816.4800<tel:504.816.4800>. Upcoming lecture: February 3 – Charles M. Blow, New York Times Columnist and CNN Commentator. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.