Barbara R. Arnwine is president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to engage the pro bono resources of the private bar to combat racial discrimination.
Patricia Camacho Centelles, the daughter of radio journalist Alicia Centelles, says that unlike her mother who faced discrimination as a black woman in Cuba, she has seen he promise of civil rights in Cuba become a reality
Alicia Centelles is a radio journalist and blogger based in Havana, as well as an interpreter for English-speaking visitors to Cuba.
Paul J. Delaney is a former reporter and editor for The New York Times in Washington, Chicago, Madrid and New York. He also worked for the Atlanta Daily World, Dayton Daily News and The Sun in Baltimore. He served as journalism chair at the University of Alabama, as well as on numerous journalism and academic committees. He is also a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jeannine Kantara is a black German activist and co-founder of the Initiative of Black People in Germany Initiative of People in Germany (ISD e.V.) and the black German magazine afro look She has written for Die Zeit, a national weekly newspaper, as well as the daily newspaper Tageszeitung. She is also a contributing author to Black Berlin – The German Metropolis and Its African Diaspora.
John A. Kantara is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, specializing in science and technology. He has been recognized by the German Academy for Technological Sciences, won the prestigious Georg-von-Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and the German Journalism Price for Space and Aeronautics. The Otto-Brenner-Foundation awarded Kantara in 2013 with the prize in critical journalism for his documentary Killing Via Joystick – the Drone War and Its Consequences.
E.R. Shipp is an associate professor and journalist in residence at Morgan State University. Shipp was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is a former ombudsman at The Washington Post and taught at Columbia University and became the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University before joining Morgan.
Mark Trahant, an independent journalist, speaker and Twitter poet, is the 20th Atwood Chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Trahant is a member of The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He is chair of the board of directors for the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit that provides advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect diversity in content, staffing and business operations.
Tonyaa Weathersbee, is an award-winning opinion columnist for The Florida Times-Union and a national columnist for BlackAmericaWeb.com, as well as senior project manager for the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies.
Gavin Wright is an economic historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University. Wright’s emphases include American economic history; the U.S. South; technology; natural resources and economic development and the economics of the Civil Rights Revolution. He is author of four books, most recently, Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2013).
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E.R. Shipp is an associate professor and journalist in residence at Morgan State University. Shipp was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is a former ombudsman at The Washington Post and taught at Columbia University and became the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University before joining Morgan.
Mark Trahant, an independent journalist, speaker and Twitter poet, is the 20th Atwood Chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Trahant is a member of The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He is chair of the board of directors for the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit that provides advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect diversity in content, staffing and business operations.
Tonyaa Weathersbee, is an award-winning opinion columnist for The Florida Times-Union and a national columnist for BlackAmericaWeb.com, as well as senior project manager for the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies.
Gavin Wright is an economic historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University. Wright’s emphases include American economic history; the U.S. South; technology; natural resources and economic development and the economics of the Civil Rights Revolution. He is author of four books, most recently, Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2013).
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