Please check with Dr. Byrd...last I heard she had not inquired re: the Buskey Auditorium. I'll be glad to hear differently if that is the case. You can acknowledge the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Minorities And Communication Division for their "co-sponsorship" of the event. You may also want to say that it is a Black History Month event. Our Dean Leon Wilson has agreed to give a brief welcome. Is there any other info you need? Thanks for doing this.
Dr. Daufin,Below is the beginnings of the info I will be sending to Haley Cumbie so that she can create the flyer and program for the Ida B. Wells event. However, I need the ceremony speakers and also who to include in the "Thanks/Acknowledgements." Can you please provide that information to me. Thank you.Sonya ClarkTo Publications:Attached is a picture of the speaker, the speaker's CV, and a past program from the event.
About the Event:
The event is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 11:00 in the Buskey Auditorium. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Communications and The Black History Month Committee
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Special Thanks To:
TBACommittee Members:
Dr. E-K Daufin (Chair), Dr. Leslie Simone Byrd (Co-chair), Jonathan Himsel, Sonya Clark, Coke Ellington, Harold Robinson, Kimberly Baker
The History of the Event:
The Ida B. Wells Lecture is an annual program designed to highlight the relationships between the mass media and the African-American community. The emphasis is on critical areas of African-American participation in mass media. By bringing these issues to light, and up for public discussion, the hope is that we can become more critical, analytical and demanding in our use of and relationships with the mass media.
Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a pioneer African-American journalist, publisher and civil rights activist, epitomizes the journalistic ideals and the level of consciousness that we in the Department of Communications strive to develop in our students. Her determination to achieve her goals in the face of adversity, coupled with her professionalism and influence on the growth of the African-American press are the factors that made us dedicate the lecture series to her memory.
About the Guest Speaker:
Please find CV attached
The Speaker's Presentation:
His lecture will be about African Americans in Entertainment-Education Television Comedy from the 1970’s and 1980’s (such as Good Times, The Jeffersons, Cosby Show, That's My Mama), the beneficial and detrimental influences of their intentionally pro-social messages to educate and inspire audiences using the theories of Everett Rogers.