News
50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in pictures
AEJMC and Minorities and Communication Division members took their journalism students to Selma, Alabama in March, 2015 to participate in the activities organized in observance of the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Dr. Frances Ward-Johnson, head of the MAC Division, Dr. James Rada at Ithaca and Dr. Marquita Smith at John Brown shared pictures of their visit to Selma with us.
Alice Tait: 2015 recipient of Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award
Dr. Alice Tait, award-winning professor in the Department of Journalism at Central Michigan University, received the Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education at the AEJMC San Francisco conference. Read more
Daniels wins Robert Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award 2015
George Daniels, an associate professor of journalism at The University of Alabama, is the recipient of the 2015 Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award. Read more
Senior Editor for Bay Area News to speak at MAC/SCHJ luncheon
Martin G. Reynolds, senior editor for community engagement, for the Bay Area News Group/Digital First Media, was the guest speaker at the Minorities and Communication/Scholastic Journalism divisions’ annual luncheon on Saturday, August 8. Read more
Federico Subervi elected president of ALMMACR
A group of professors and experts from around the country recently culminated at Florida State University for the creation of the Association for Latino Media and Marketing Communication Research (ALMMACR). Read more
MAC reaches out to HBCUs, HSIs
The outreach panel for the Minorities and Communication Division is talking with heads of journalism and mass communication programs at historically black colleges and universities as well as Hispanic-serving institutions in order to hear their concerns and ideas about the professional and academic sides of our field plus encourage them to get active in MAC. Read more
Book Review: Voices of Cherokee Women
Recently, I reviewed a book that may be helpful for a class addressing race, gender and history. Voices of Cherokee Women Ed. Carolyn Ross Johnston is an excellent compilation of gender history fit for those interested in gender, historical, and/or Native issues. Read more
CSM Chair Kyle Huckins releases book of columns tackling faith, race, today’s issues
Just released by Wipf and Stock, “Getting from Here to Eternity: A Spirit-filled View of the News” is a compilation of more than two years of newspaper columns on religion . . . Read more