Dear MACers, Here is a story from the Bham News online re: the lecture MAC "co-sponsors" every year @ Alabama State University. I am sending our division head two copies of the program for her record (University PR doesn't trust any of us with a digital copy, though I am attaching a rough draft copy of the flyer used for on-campus promotion and the jpeg file missing from the article.)
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ASU-INFOBelow is a story that was posted today on the online newspaper site of the Birmingham News/al.com that is about ASU's Ida B. Wells lecture that was held today, which featured nationally acclaimed broadcast and media art expert Dr. Herman Otis Howard.ASU's Wells lecture series is part of an extensive annual Black History Month program held at Alabama State University.Our hat is off to ASU's Department of Communications for spearheading this event and making it so successful - see the photo below of ASU's Rev. Dr. E. K. Daufin as she presents a plaque to Dr. Howard at the conclusion of today's lecture in the Buskey Building.Yes, whether you are a communications professional at ASU or just a regular person, it is easy to say that "It's a Great Time to be a Hornet!"-------------------------------------------------------------------Birmingham News/al.com Feb. 14, 2013Ida B. Wells Lecture one of many Black History Month events at ASU
[log in to unmask]" width="40" height="40"> By Janita Poe | [log in to unmask]al.com
on February 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, updated February 14, 2013 at 4:04 PMMONTGOMERY, Alabama – Nationally acclaimed broadcast and media arts expert Herman Howard, Ph.D., was the guest speaker at Thursday's Ida B. Wells Lecture, part of an extensive annual Black History Month program at Alabama State University.
ASU Communications Professor Rev. Dr. E. K. Daufin presents a plaque to Dr. Herman Otis Howard at the conclusion of the 2013 Ida B. Wells Lecture in the Buskey Building. (Janita Poe | AL.com)Howard's lectured centered on ways popular media –ostensibly serving to entertain audiences – have managed to provide important public service messages.
In his lecture, attended by more than 200 students and faculty in the Dr. Denise Chapman Auditorium in the John Buskey building, Howard screened and engaged audience members in a discussion about an episode of "Good Times," in which the family convinces the father to get tested for hypertension.
The annual ASU communications arts lecture and the annual university's Black History Month program have roots dating back to the founding of Negro History Week by Carter G. Woodson in 1926.
In addition to the lecture, this year's program has included tributes to Rosa Parks, a 50-year retrospective examination of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and an opening ceremony and convocation featuring MSNBC commentator and Georgetown sociology professor, Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D.
Students and faculty listen as Dr. Herman Otis Howard, Ph.D., presents the 2013 Ida B. Wells Lecture on Feb. 14 at Alabama State University. (Janita Poe | AL.com)The Ida B. Wells Lecture was sponsored by the ASU Department of Communications, the ASU Black History Month Committee and the Association for Education in Journalism and the Mass Communication Minorities and Communication Division.
Herman Howard is the chairperson of the English, Foreign Language and Mass Communication Department at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C.
For a list of upcoming Black History Month events, see the 2013 ASU Black History Month Schedule.
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