Jamelle Bouie to Deliver the 2025 Constitution Day Lecture, Sept. 16

Jamelle Bouie, columnist for the New York Times; former CBS News political analyst and chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine, will deliver the 2025 Judge William O. E. Sterling Constitution Day Lecture at St. Mary's College of Maryland. The event is free and open to the public; tickets or registration are not required.

Jamelle Bouie covers U.S. politics, public policy, elections and race.

Bouie’s political instincts provide audiences with unique insight on the past, present and future of our national politics, policy and the state of race relations. As he did while writing for Slate and the Daily Beast, Jamelle shares eye-opening perspectives on the issues at play in America today. 

Bouie has appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TIME and The New Yorker. Bouie uses his unique perspective to take audiences to the front lines of the nation’s most significant news events, from civil unrest to political partisanship. He has emerged as a leading voice on the national scene, being named to Forbes' “30 Under 30 in Media” in 2015. 

Bouie stimulates provocative, much-needed thinking on critical national affairs issues. He helps audiences analyze current events through the lens of human history and in the age of social media. He deftly illustrates how the past reveals itself in the present, and how policy-makers, citizen activists and cultural influencers can seize the power of information to make a difference.

In 2021, Bouie received the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism. In 2022, he was inducted into the Society of American Historians, and in 2024, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

The Judge William O.E. Sterling Constitution Day Lecture is an annual lecture held on or around September 17 to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Previous Constitution Day speakers have included Sherrilyn Ifill, Nina Totenberg, Neal Katyal and Congressman Jamie Raskin.

This event is FREE and open to the public.