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Event: 'Letters to Black Girls' Founder Rochelle Riles Shares 'Hope' for 2019 Community MLK Convocation
Date: Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Organization: Albion College
Location: Albion's downtown Bohm Theatre
Cost: Free
Contact: Albion College Gerald R. Ford Institute
Phone: 517/629—0368
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Description: Award-winning journalist
Rochelle Riley shares a
message of "Hope & History"
regarding moral justice for
the Albion Community 2019
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Convocation. Riley's
presentation takes place at
7 p.m. on Wednesday, January
30, in Albion's downtown
Bohm Theatre.


Detroit Free Press columnist
Riley is the author of “The
Burden: African Americans
and the Enduring Impact of
Slavery” and a co-founder
of Letters to Black Girls,'
a national mission to pass
words of encouragement from
black women to girls. She
frequently appears on
National Public Radio, MSNBC
and Fox2. Her national
awards include a team
Pulitzer Prize for local
reporting, an Ida B. Wells
Award from the National
Association of Black
Journalists, and the Will
Rogers Award from the
National Society of
Newspaper Columnists. Riley
was a 2016 inductee into the
Michigan Journalism Hall of
Fame and will be a 2019
inductee into the North
Carolina Media and
Journalism Hall of Fame.

This event is open to the
entire Albion community, and
all are encouraged to
attend. For more
information, contact the
Albion College Gerald R.
Ford Institute at
ford@albion.edu or 517/629—
0368.
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