As part of its annual Cecil H. and Ida Green Honors Chair program, the Department of Social Work presents Bonnie Boswell as its featured speaker Feb. 7-8 to celebrate and honor Whitney Young, a leader in social work and promoter of the Civil Rights Movement.

Boswell is an Emmy-award winning journalist and niece of Whitney Young, a social worker whose leadership during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s brought visibility to the social work profession and whose Domestic Marshall Plan – part of President Johnson’s War on Poverty – focused on economic development emphasizing federal aid for African American youth. Boswell is the producer of The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights, a documentary that follows Young’s journey from segregated Kentucky to the national campaign for equal rights.

Boswell will be on campus Feb. 7-8 to meet with social work classes, faculty and students from various campus organizations. She will screen The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights on Tuesday, Feb. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Brown-Lupton University Union ballroom. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information about the event, call ext. 7469. For more information about the film, visit www.whitneyyoungfilm.com.