Hill Harper, author and actor, is coming to North Carolina Central University as part of the institution’s Centennial Lyceum program on Sunday, September 20, 2009, at 12 noon, in the B.N. Duke Auditorium, on Fayetteville Street in Durham.

Hill Harper is the author of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother, which won two NAACP awards and was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 2007, and the New York Times Bestseller Letters to a Young Sister, which also won a NAACP award in 2008. The gist of the Letters books is motivational. Harper covers education, peer pressure, and the impact of media images on young African-Americans and Latinos.

In his latest outing, Harper has written a book aimed at adults. “Simply put, black women and black men are not communicating. And perhaps the saddest part of our lack of communication is that in many ways we are not even friends anymore,” says Harper. The new book, The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Trusting Relationships, addresses the roots of the breakdown in the black family, bridging the communication gap and other relationship perspectives.

Hill Harper stars in CSI: NY and holds degrees from Brown, Harvard, and the Kennedy School of Government.