As the Nation still hemorrhages from the Great Recession and politicians demonize the poor, The New York Times bestselling authors and social justice advocates, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, take aim at the “P” word—poverty. In The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, West and Smiley challenge the middle class to change how they think, talk, and act in the face of gross income inequality.

On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Martin Luther King, Jr.

SC State University’s Environmental Policy Institute (Isaac Williams Lecture Series) will host its annual conference.

This year’s theme is “South Carolina’s Human and Natural Assets: Growing our Rural Economies,” and will take place on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 9 a.m.