(AANEWSWIRE)On Sunday, December 11th, 2005 at 5:30 P.M., the epic Mr. Dick Gregory will appear as the featured solo speaker at Yale University's imposing limestone, central auditorium, Woolsey Hall, 500 College Street,New Haven, CT. , on the corner of College and Grove Streets. The very dynamic Mr. Gregory is as imposing as the architecture he will grace. He will take us from Mark Twain to Hurricane Katrina! This will be an extraordinary event for Connecticut and for Yale.

Richard Pryor refers to him as, "the greatest and the first." His contributions, however, reach well beyond his radically astute comedic wit and his unapologetic and sharply strategic tongue. He is an author, historian, nutritionist, fasting guru and politician. He ate no solid food for two and a half years to protest the Vietnam War. He ran for President in 1968; the choice, he reminds us, "was between Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace and me."

Mr. Gregory -- the first black American satirist --opened the doors for comedians such as Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Pryor. A committed and fearless civil rights activist, in ways that no comedian before or since him can lay claim to, Dick Gregory was a close friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Robert Kennedy. He has repeatedly risked his life and been jailed to combat racism, intolerance and the war mongering of over five decades. Tablets in the corridors of Woolsey Hall commemorate graduates of Yale who lost their lives in those wars.

He is magnificently subversive -- eloquent and unabashed; innately composed. Dick Gregory's sense of self could fill any architectural structure Yale has to offer. And given current events, his priestly and provocative presence can't come a day too soon.

Tickets can be purchased by calling ticketweb @ 1-866-468-7619, or on-line @ www.ticketweb.com . For further info call 203-777-6335 or go to www.dickgregory.com. Doors at Woolsey Hall open at5:00 P.M.

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