Watch Party: MLK Memorial Lecture and meet new Senior Diversity Director
Date
Monday, January 16, 2017 - 9:45am to 12:30pm
Location
1330 400 NIB
Description
If you can't make it over to Hill Auditorium for the MLK memorial lecture with Amy Goodman and Issa Rae, join UMSN's watch party. Refreshments available throughout.
9:45 am: Doors open
10:00-11:30 a.m.: MLK Jr. Memorial Keynote Lecture with Amy Goodman and Issa Rae
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.: Chat and mingle. Introduce yourself to UMSN's new Senior Directory for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Dr. Rushika Patel.
U-M is excited to host Issa Rae, star of HBO's hit series Insecure, and Amy Goodman, award winning investigative journalist, author, syndicated columnist, and host of Democracy Now!, as speakers for the keynote memorial lecture. This year’s keynote event will focus on a sit-down discussion between Amy Goodman and Issa Rae.
Award-winning investigative journalist, author, and syndicated columnist, as well as the host of Democracy Now!, airing on more than 800 public television and radio stations worldwide, Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” The Independent of London called Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration,” and pulsemedia.com has placed her at the top of their 20 Top Global Media Figures list. Goodman is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary she co-produced, “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship,” which exposed the oil company’s role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. The piece also won the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Goodman has also won numerous awards for another radio documentary she co-produced, “MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor,” including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from AP, UPI, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The author of four New York Times bestsellers, Goodman’s latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. She has co-authored, with brother and journalist David Goodman, three other bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.
With her own unique flare and infectious sense of humor, Issa Rae’s content has garnered over 20 million views and 200,000 YouTube subscribers (and counting). In addition to making Glamour Magazine’s “35 Under 35” list as well as Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list and winning the Shorty Award for Best Web Show for her hit seriesThe Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae has worked on web content for Pharrell Williams, Tracey Edmonds and numerous others. Rae developed a TV series with Shonda Rhimes for ABC and is currently working on her half-hour comedy show, Insecure, for HBO. Rae is also the New York Times Best Selling author of, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” released by Atria/Simon & Schuster in 2015.
Issa has received national attention with major media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, ELLE, Seventeen, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Fast Company, MSNBC, Essence, Fader and was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for Insecure.
