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USU hosts two-part satellite seminar on 'African-American Experience: Civil Rights and Beyond' By
the USU department of journalism and communication The department of journalism and communication at Utah State University will host an interactive, two-part satellite session on Television and the African-American Experience: Civil Rights and Beyond as part of the department's Media & Society Lecture Series. The interactive satellite discussions about race in America comes in two interactive satellite presentations broadcast in real time to the USU campus from the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City. Part One is On the Front Lines: Television and African-American Issues, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Engineering Room 106. The session is live via satellite from New York, featuring Gerald M. Boyd, a New York Times editor, and civil rights activists and scholars Benjamin J. Hooks, Nicholas Katzenbach and Judy Richardson. Part Two is Images of African-Americans on Prime-Time Television, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 14 in Engineering 106. The speakers are Topper Carew, Howard University media scholar Jannette Dates, actor and director Tim Reid, and author Mel Watkins. Both episodes, sent live via satellite from the Museum of Television and Radio on New York's West 52nd Street, include video and other depictions of how race is portrayed in America, followed by a discussion and the opportunity for audience members at USU and elsewhere to engage the panelists via satellite. The Front Lines session Wednesday examines how television reported to America on such hot-button race issues as Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings to the U.S, Supreme Court, the Rodney King arrest and subsequent riots in Los Angeles, and how TV reports to the nation the complex issues of racial and ethnic diversity. The second session looks at how social, political and historical influences have shaped depictions of Black people in America, from Amos 'n Andy in the 1950s to The Cosby Show in the 1980s, including recent embarrassments at the Big Three networks when it was found that no people of color were featured in starring roles in primetime last year. JCOM Department Head Ted Pease, a national authority on media representations of race and ethnicity in U.S. media, will be on hand to moderate the discussion. Pease is co-editor of the 1997 book The News in Black and White and just released his two-year study of newspaper and TV news, The News & Race Models of Excellence Project. Both sessions are free and the public is invited to attend. For information, contact the USU Department of Journalism and Communication at 435-797-3292. See http://www.mtr.org/seminars/satellite/pdf/civil_rights.pdf
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