St. Norbert College's Cassandra Voss Center Presents Shut Up and Dribble: Sports, Society and Social Change

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From St. Norbert College, April 14, 2023
by Lily Maier, lily.maier@snc.edu, 920-403-3089

The Cassandra Voss Center’s theme for this academic year, Undefeated: Pursuing Justice Through the Power of Sport, captures the spirit St. Norbert wishes to bring to conversations about issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity more broadly"with resolve, purpose and a commitment to the long-game. The Cassandra Voss Center will be wrapping up #YearUndefeated on Thursday, Apr. 20 at the 7 p.m. at the Ft. Howard Theatre, 315 3rd St., with father-son duo David and Andrew Maraniss. Their lecture is called, “Shut Up and Dribble: Sports, Society and Social Change.” Before the lecture, there is a gathering at the Cassandra Voss Center for drinks and hors d'oeuvres at 5:30 p.m., 311 Grant St. Registration for both the reception and the program is due Monday, Apr. 17 at https://snc.edu/go/undefeated.

David Maraniss is a New York Times best-selling author, fellow of the Society of American Historians and visiting distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University. He has been affiliated with the Washington Post for more than forty years as an editor and writer and twice won Pulitzer Prizes at the newspaper. In 1993, he received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of Bill Clinton, and in 2007 he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. He was also a Pulitzer finalist three other times, including for one of his books, “They Marched Into Sunlight.” He has won many other major writing awards, including the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Frankfurt eBook Award. “A Good American Family” is his twelfth book. He and his wife Linda, a retired environmentalist, live in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin, their hometown.


Andrew Maraniss is a New York Times best-selling author of narrative nonfiction for teens and adults, focusing on the intersection of sports and social justice. His first book, “Strong Inside,” was the recipient of the 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award and the lone special recognition honor at the 2015 RFK Book Awards. The young reader edition was named one of the Top 10 Biographies and Top 10 Sports Books of 2017 by the American Library Association and was selected as a Notable Social Studies Book for 2019 by the National Council for the Social Studies. His third book, “Singled Out,” is a biography of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay Major League Baseball player. Esquire magazine named the book one of the Top 100 Baseball Books Ever Written, and the American Library Association named it to the 2022 Rainbow Book List. His fourth book, published Sept. 13, 2022, is “Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team.” Andrew is director of special projects at Vanderbilt University. Andrew lives in Brentwood, Tenn., with his wife Alison, and their two young children.


For more information, contact the Cassandra Voss Center at cvc@snc.edu.