4:48 When Gonzaga University professor Tod Marshall began helping to plan the university's 4th Annual Race and Racism Lecture, he decided to do something different. The former state poet laureate wanted to include as many people as possible after a summer of racial justice protests and a contentious election. So he reached out to local teachers to engage high school students in advance of Wednesday's lecture. The guest for this year’s Race and Racism Lecture at Gonzaga is poet and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine. Tod Marshall says the choice to invite Claudia Rankine to speak had a lot to do with her 2014 book,