Truth Tellers: The Power and Presence of Black Women Journalist Since 1960
Mar 10 2023
WHEN:
Mar 10, 2023 at 2:00pm
WHERE:
Fourth Estate Room
CONTACT INFO:
Bonnie Davis
MORE INFO:
Meeting
This event is not sponsored or endorsed by The National Press Club. Inquiries should be directed to the contact above.
You are invited to join author and journalist Bonnie Newman Davis and her guests for a discussion of Bonnie’s new book, "Truth Tellers: The Power and Presence of Black Women Journalists Since 1960" on Friday, March 10, at 2 p.m. A reception will follow.
Bonnie’s book tells the stories of 24 Black women whose journalism careers spanned the last 40 years of the 20th century. They are print and broadcast journalists who bore the burden of being a Black woman in America’s newsrooms. Some of the women profiled are easily recognizable. But the goal of this book is not to profile familiar names, but to introduce America to those who would never be heard of otherwise.
From stories as diverse as those of Dorothy Butler Gilliam, who at the tender age of 23 was the first Black woman journalist hired by The Washington Post, to Pamela McAllister Johnson, the first Black woman publisher of a daily newspaper, “Truth Tellers” chronicles Black women who took on the challenges that W.E.B. Dubois called the “two-ness” of being an American and Black.
A longstanding journalist and educator in her own right, Bonnie graduated from North Carolina A&T State University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She has worked in several newsrooms, both print and online during her career, and currently is managing editor of the Richmond Free Press, a Black-owned weekly newspaper in Richmond, Virginia.
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Please rsvp for this event at http://evite.me/pPEsWC3Nf4
http://www.bonnienewmandavis.com/