Highlights from the 9th Annual Lift Every Voice Lecture Series 2019
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Tenth Annual Lift Every Voice Lecture Series 2020
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020, 6:30 PM
![]() In 1989, Hunter joined the New York Daily News where she worked as a columnist and covered numerous topics for the paper, including sports, business, and news stories. From 1996 to 1998, Hunter worked as a professor of journalism at New York University. In 1999, as a member of the Daily News’ editorial board, she received a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s series of editorials that formed a campaign to save the Apollo Theater in Harlem. While still at the New York Daily News, Hunter also began writing music reviews, through which she met various musicians, including LL Cool J. It was through him that Hunter began writing books, starting with a collaborative effort to write LL Cool J’s memoir I Make My Own Rules. She also has collaborated in creating the celebrity memoirs of Queen Latifah and Kris Jenner, as well as Reverend Al Sharpton’s book Al on America. Other books that Hunter worked on discussed issues of African American culture, such as Karyn Langhorne Folan’s Don’t Bring Home a White Boy. In 2002, Hunter took a new academic position as an assistant visiting professor at Hunter College in the Department of Film and Media Studies. From 2003 to 2006, she co-hosted a morning talk show with Steve Malzberg at the AM radio station WWRL. Hunter also became a contributor to many cable news channels, including appearances on the Paula Zahn Now show on CNN and MSNBC. In 2007, Hunter became CEO of her own publishing company, Karen Hunter Publishing, as an imprint of Simon and Schuster Publishing. The label publishes mostly popular nonfiction targeted towards the market for African American titles. In 2010, she published a book as the sole author, called Stop Being Niggardly, which is addressed to African Americans and their successes. Karen was the lead host on “The ‘RL Morning Show” on WWRL and was named one of the “Heavy Hundred” (The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts In America) by industry bible Talkers Magazine all three years on the air. She is currently the host of The Karen Hunter Show on SiriusXM. A former sports and news reporter with the New York Daily News for 16 years, Karen served four of those years on the editorial board of The News, where she was a member of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning teams. She was also the paper’s first African-American female news columnist. Topic: BLACK IN AMERICA: THE STATE OF RACE RELATIONSTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020, 6:30 PM![]() He also served as senior counsel and acting director of the Office of Communications Business Opportunities at the Federal Communications Commission, executive director of the Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington, and a trial attorney at both the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the U.S. Department of Justice. Brooks served as judicial clerk for the Chief Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Brooks holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and member of the Yale Law and Policy Review, and a Master of Divinity from Boston University’s School of Theology, where he was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar. He is the recipient of several honorary doctorates including: Boston University, Drexel University, Saint Peter’s University and Payne Theological Seminary as well as the highest alumni awards from Boston University and Boston University School of Theology. He also holds a B.A. from Jackson State University. He is a fourth-generation ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Topic: RACE AND POLITICS: ‘I HAVE A DREAM’ FIVE DECADES LATERTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2020, 6:30 PM![]() Dr. Avis’ clients range the gamut from major corporations to non-profit organizations to governmental institutions and colleges & universities. Across the spectrum, she understands how to face tough issues and break through to the power and potential that inclusive diversity brings. Dr. Avis has had the honor of being the Keynote Speaker to President Obama’s Inaugural President of the United States’ Young African Leaders Summit, was a Featured Speaker before the World Bank, and has conducted workshops and trainings on women’s career and entrepreneurial success on behalf of U.S. Embassies across the globe. As such, she’s served as a featured speaker in Tanzania, Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, The Bahamas, Fiji, Tonga and Somoa in addition to speaking at corporations, conferences and colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Find Dr. Avis regularly as a Guest Host and Regular Panelist to TV One’s NewsOne Now with Roland Martin, PBS’ To the Contrary, Sirius XM Radio’s The Agenda. She also serves as a regular contributor to Black Enterprise, the Huffington Post, and NBC BLK. Over the years, she’s been featured in literally hundreds of television and radio appearances domestically and internationally. She’s also been published and quoted on some of the most prestigious platforms in the world and has leveraged her expertise to become a professional speaker, sharing her message throughout the US and in countries across the globe. With the goal of helping more Black women make the shift from merely becoming empowered to literally being in-power, she understands the importance of escaping obscurity and becoming known broadly as the expert that you already are. As a result, she has dedicated the next stage of her career to helping more women understand how to leverage the media to make the shift from modern-day Hidden Figure to recognized Thought Leader.
Topic: SO YOU THINK YOU’RE NOT RACIST: ATTACKING CONSCIOUS AND OVERT BIASSeries Host |