WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
Vaughn A. Booker Jr., Dartmouth University
Laura Davulis, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wayne Dawkins, Morgan State University
Matthew Delmont, Dartmouth College
Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University
Kim Gallon, Brown University
Tiffany Gill, Rutgers University
Michael Guy, George Washington University
D’Weston Haywood, Hunter College, CUNY
Wangui Muigai, Brandeis University
Lynette Mills, University of the West Indies
Brandon Nightingale, Howard University
Jane Rhodes, University of Illinois
E. James West, University College London
Miya Fayne Williams, CSU Fullerton
Jewon Woo, Lorain County Community College
Savannah Wood, AFRO Charities
Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta
PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE
10:00 – 10:15: Introductions & Opening remarks James West and Kim Galon, Black Press Research Collective
Kim Gallon and E. James West
10:15 – 10:30: Meet the Press
Laura Davualis, Acquisition Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
10:30 – 10:35: Break
10:35 – 11:20: Antebellum/Postbellum – The Black Press Emerges
Benjamin Fagan, Teresa Zackodnik, and Jewon Woo
11:20 – 11:25: Break
11:25 – 12:10: Golden Age?
Jane Rhodes, Vaughn Booker, Wangui Muigai and Thomas Aiello
12:10 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:40: 50s/60s & Modern Black Press – Challenge and Changes in the Black Press
Tiffany Gill, D’Weston Haywood, E. James West and Wayne Dawkins
1:40 – 1:50: Break
1:50 – 2:35: Archives/Family Paper – Archiving and Preserving Black Press Legacy
Tegan Bratcher, Miya Faye Williams, Savannah Wood and Brandon Nightingale
2:35 – 2:45: Break
2:45 – 3:15: The Black Press and the Black Public Sphere
Keynote by Matthew F. Delmont, Associate Dean of International and Interdisciplinary Studies and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History