Black Alumni Reunion Event: “Telling Us Who We Are: The Importance of Black Arts, Media, and Culture Today”

This conversation among alumni artists, journalists, and producers considers the important and changing role of media, art, and storytelling in shaping community and racial and ethnic imaginations in contemporary society.

Moderator: Tricia Rose AM’87 PhD’93, P’14, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

Panelists: Brickson E. Diamond ’93, Co-Founder, The Blackhouse Foundation and Chief Executive Officer, Big Answers, LLC; Tanya K. Hernandez ’86, P’20, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law, Fordham University; Scott Poulson-Bryant ’08, Assistant Professor of English, Fordham University; Doreen St. Félix ’14, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Black Alumni Reunion, September 21 – 23, 2018