The School of Journalism and Strategic Media will host Kathy Roberts Forde, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the nation's top journalism historians, to deliver the 2021 Roy Reed Lecture at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 7, via Zoom.

The entire campus community and the public are invited to attend. Forde will discuss her forthcoming book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, co-edited with Sid Bedingfield, to be published in November 2021 by the University of Illinois Press. A question and answer will follow.

Forde is an associate professor of journalism and associate dean of equity and inclusion in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She served as chair of the UMass Journalism Department from 2014 to 2017, former chair of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division and past associate editor of American Journalism.

Her book Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment received the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha book award and the AEJMC History Division book award. Her forthcoming book, Journalism and Jim Crow, documents the active role white newspaper publishers and editors played in building and sustaining white supremacy across the South from 1875 to 1920.        

The event is cosponsored by the African and African American Studies Program. Rob Wells, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, will moderate the event and Caree Banton, associate professor of Afro-Caribbean history and director of the African and African American Studies Program, will be a co-moderator. Audience members are welcome to submit questions through the Zoom platform.

Zoom link:
http://bit.do/royreed
Meeting ID: 838 0252 4666   Passcode: Royreed!21

About the Roy Reed Lecture Series: The Roy Reed Lecture Series is the featured event for the School of Journalism and Strategic Media's annual Journalism Days celebration. Reed was a reporter for the New York Times from 1965 to 1978. He also taught journalism for 16 years at the U of A, where he stressed not only the importance of telling stories accurately but of telling them well.