The study of africanamerican life and history. Sandra bolzenius, what was the Womens Army Corps . The Womens Army Corps or the wac, ill be using that acronym to describe them, and members of the Womens Army Corps, it was established in 1942. The military, the army was fighting a two front war and needed more troops, so they enlisted women for the first time in its history to make sure they were able to fill the jobs that the men were leaving so they could go to the front. And there have been many books on the mistreatment of africanamerican soldiers during world war ii, but you wrote about four enlisted female soldiers. Who were they . First of all, im very glad that you mentioned that because so often the books are on the officers and theyre on the white wacs who served, but very few on black enlisted women so i wrote about the four women that i mentioned here, part of the 6,500 contingent of black women who enlisted during the war. Pioneers of the wac and they had the same reasons th
So i have the very difficult task of going after gary. I would like to first thank carrie for inviting me and will, for accommodating all of my traveling snafus and being so gracious. And to thank liz baron, who is my former advisor and gary gallagher, who is also a dear mentor of mine, for not only having me here at the conference, but also just for years and years of mentoring. That dont seem to end. I am going to talk about i am going to begin with the battle that gary does not think is important, because it is in North Carolina. To be fair, i dont think many people think that the battle of newborn is incredibly important or significant, so i dont think he is alone. Nor am i arguing that the western theater is more important than the eastern theater. I wanted to throw my hands up and say that up front and maybe change the conversation a little bit. So, i will begin. On the morning of march 14, 1862, general john foster read the first troops to the front line in North Carolina. Foste
Spans q a. Coming up next, a discussion on the la times coverage of the death of rapper Nipsey Hussle. Reporters from the la times joined the National Press Club Journalism institute to talk about efforts to change the negative image of South Central los angeles. The rappers rise to philanthropy, diversity in newsrooms, and writing authentic stories for an underrepresented community. This is about one hour and 10 minutes. Welcome everybody. I like how you instantly got silent. Welcome. On behalf of the National Press Club Journalism institute , i am happy you are joining us on this room and on cspan. I am the executive director of the National Press Club Journalism institute where we are working to close the gap between journalism and civic engagement. This is a really Important Program in service to that mission. I want to tell you a little bit about how it came about. Back in april, ava to burn a was given an honor as part of the Free Expression words. As she accepted her honor she t
Is everybody still with us . You guys awake . Its my pleasure to introduce our final panel before our keynote, justice inclusion, imagine and building alternative platforms. And so to introduce our guests, i would turn it right over to dr. Lori lopez and well start the panel with that. Thank you. All right. So, for our panel today, we have four wonderful speakers and im going to start by introducing them. So here we have margene christian, professor of Communication Studies at northwestern university, he recently earned tenure there so will very soon have the title of associate professor. Tanya sutherland is assistant professor of archival studies and Computer Sciences at the university of hawaii. New title. Well clap. Applause anyway. Sarah j. Jackson at Northeastern University and in july shell be starting a new position as president of communication at the university of pennsylvanias ananberg school of communication and matthew bui is the fellow at the university of southern califor
And watches as a flight is torn down and the union one hoisted in its place. Sunday night at 8 00. Up next, reporters from the Los Angeles Times join the National Press club to talk coverage of rapper Nipsey Hussles death. They talk to discuss the negative image of los angeles. Over one hour. Welcome, everybody. I like how you instantly got silent. Welcome on behalf of of the National Press club and press journalism institute. So happy you are joining us in this room and on the span. I am the executive director of the National Press Club Institute where we are working to close the gap. Gram andn Important Service program and service. April, a woman was given an honor at the Free Expression awards. Honor, shepted her talked about Nipsey Hussle and dedicated it to him and talked about the l. A. Times and their coverage. Want to show you what she said. Tonight i want to dedicate this award to someone who was and is important and who used his art in dynamic ways. He is a rap artist, entrep