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Actress and choreographer Rosie Perez gave the annual Voices of Color Lecture at Hamilton on December 7. Perez is an Academy Award-nominated actress and Emmy-nominated choreographer. She began her career as a choreographer for such artists as Bobby Brown, LL Cool J and Diana Ross. She also choreographed and directed the "Fly Girls" on Fox Television's In Living Color, for which she received an Emmy nomination.

World War II heroes, the Navajo Code Talkers, will lecture on how as both Americans and Native Americans they were moved to serve their country and their experiences in combat around the Pacific. This event will take place on Monday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in the College Chapel. The lecture, sponsored by the Voices of Color Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

Russell Simmons, political activist, founder and CEO of Def Jam records and of Phat Farm clothing, recently lectured at Hamilton College, delivering the third annual C. Christine Johnson Voices of Color Lecture to a large crowd in Wellin Hall. Although Simmons was scheduled to lecture titled "Hip-Hop's Influence on Politics, Economics and Popular Culture," he opted to make his time at Hamilton more of an open conversation or dialogue where students, faculty, and community members were able to discuss hip-hop, society, politics, entrepreneurship, and the media.

Michael Eric Dyson, the Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, an ordained Baptist minister and the author of several books gave a lecture, “George Bush, Clarence Thomas and 50 Cent,” at Hamilton College on April 14. Dyson, author of Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X and Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, was the second speaker in The C. Christine Johnson Voices of Color Lecture Series. It was sponsored by the Office of the President, The Dean of Students, The Dean of Faculty and The Brothers Organization. Dyson’s talk addressed the Iraqi conflict, affirmative action, and Hip Hop as an outlet for social commentary.

Darlene Clark Hine, the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University and a noted author, will give a lecture, “Black Professionals and Race Consciousness: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 1890-1950," on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m, in the Chapel at Hamilton College. This is the first lecture in the Christine Johnson Voices of Color Lecture Series, with sponsorship from the Africana Studies department and the President's Office. It is free and open to the public.