Sponsor the tribune and cspan book tv todays program will be broadcast live on book tv if theres time at the end for q a we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the whole viewing audience can hear your question. Before we c begin please silence your cell phone and turn off camera flashes. Let me introduce you to our guest. A reporter and columnist president of the chicago Chapter National association of black journalists president of the Journalist Association please welcome from the suntimes. [applause] good morning. Thank you for being here today and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as a president of the chicago chapter i owe my career to Dorothy Gilman author of trailblazer a pioneering journalist yes i owe my career to Dorothy Gilliam and pioneer such as she those who endeared the struggles to be the first and the struggles associated with breaking down racial b
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
Journalism institute hosted the event. It is an hour and 10 minutes. 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 Journalism institute, where we are working to close the gap between journalism and civic engagement. This is a really Important Program and service to that mission. I want to tell you a little bit how it came about. April, ava duvernay was given an honor at the Free Expression awards. As she accepted her honor, she talked about Nipsey Hussle and she dedicated it to him and she talked about how about the l. A. Times and their coverage. I 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, an entrepreneurial activist from the part of the country i am from. Very close to compton, where i grew up. His name is Nipsey Hussle
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Have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here. The university of mississippi since 1983, his books include outside agitator, the Civil Rig