TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences will host Ofield Dukes on Tuesday, Oct. 1 as part of their Public Relations Distinguished Lecture Series.

Dukes’ speaking engagement is free and open to the public and will be held in Reese Phifer Hall room 216 at 9:30 a.m. His lecture is titled “Public Relations Ethics, Politics and International Communication.”

Dukes is the founder and president of Ofield Dukes and Associates, a public relations firm in Washington, D.C. He names among the firm’s clients the Democratic National Committee, Sony Music Entertainment Inc., the U.S. Treasury, RJR Nabisco Inc. and the Congressional Black Caucus.

He has been a communications consultant in every Democratic presidential campaign since 1968.

Among his many honors, Dukes is the founder of the Black Public Relations Society, a board member of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, a board member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, board member of the National Coalition of Black Voter Participation, board member of the Public Relations Society of America and is 2002 diversity committee co-chair for the Public Relations Society of America College of Fellows.