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Event:
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'Letters to Black Girls' Founder Rochelle Riles Shares 'Hope' for 2019 Community MLK Convocation
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Date:
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
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Time:
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7:00 PM
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Organization:
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Albion College |
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Albion's downtown Bohm Theatre
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Cost:
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Free
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Contact:
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Albion College Gerald R. Ford Institute Phone: 517/629—0368 Click Here to Email
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Description:
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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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Lectures/Classes
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