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MEDIA ADVISORY
JOURNALIST JILL NELSON LECTURES ON BLACK FAMILY ISSUES IN FILM & MEDIA AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
 

WHAT:

 Morehouse College Department of Sociology presents the 57th Annual Family Institute "Images of African American Families in Film and Media"
   

SPEAKER:



 

 

 Jill Nelson's work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Essence, The Nation, Ms., the Chicago Tribune and the Village Voice. Nelson was named Journalist of the Year while she was a staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine. Nelson is a contributing editor to USA Weekend, an on-line columnist for MSNBC.COM, and a monthly contributor to the Op Ed page for USA Today. Nelson is the author of Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience (1993), which won an American Book Award and Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-up Black Woman (1997). Nelson also edited Police Brutality: An Anthology (2000). A native of Harlem and a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism, Nelson is currently a professor of journalism at Columbia.
   
WHEN: Thursday, March 22, 2001 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
   
WHERE:

 Sale Hall Chapel
Morehouse Campus, 830 Westview Drive, SW

Ranked the number one college in the nation for educating African-American students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation's only historically black, private liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor's degrees on more African-American men than any other institution in the nation. In addition to offering 36 majors in humanities, natural and social sciences, Morehouse provides a number of programs and activities to enhance its challenging liberal arts curriculum, including the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, the Morehouse Research Institute, and the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs.

Prominent alumni include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, U.S. Surgeon General; Shelton "Spike" Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Maynard Jackson, chairman and CEO of Jackson Securities Inc. and the first African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from an historically black college or university.

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