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Tuesday, October 4th, 2016Juneteenth (Syracuse Style, part 5)
Saturday, June 18th, 2016
Radio exec Kenny Dees (left) and media personality George Kilpatrick took time to catch up near the main stage at Clinton Square earlier today. Kilpatrick helped organize the modern Juneteenth Celebration in Syracuse (back when it was held on South Avenue).
Throwback Thursday: Memoir
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
Actor Taraji P. Henson’s memoir will be out later this year. Last year she visited SU to talk to students about her career.
Love the Hustle
Monday, May 9th, 2016
From Film to Politics to Media: Rosario Dawson has started an online talk show.
Week in Review
Sunday, April 10th, 2016The Producer Peek
Friday, April 8th, 2016
Actor Anthony Anderson checks out his bio and approves of the comments made during his introduction by Newhouse student Nina Rodgers (left) on Tuesday.
Imitation of Life
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Actor/producer Anthony Anderson came to Syracuse University this evening and recalled his journey from Compton to Hollywood (via Howard University). He broke down his own real-life bro mitzvah operation, as well as how he and his Black-ish co-creator Kenya Barris mine the details of their first-generation mega success into story ideas (Barris’s wife is named Rainbow). Anderson was a guest of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for the Truth Be Told Program.
When will SU get a Hip Hop Fellow?
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Harry Allen, writer, photographer and hip hop historian completed a two-day residence at Syracuse University and ended it by showing some of his vintage Golden Era pictures at Waston Theater last night.
Provocative
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Kierna Mayo, editor
She has been at Ebony for less than a year, but Kierna Mayo is already on a Tina Brown-type trajectory to change the publication, and scramble what we think of as the journalistic status quo.
Mayo encouraged students to bring their “authentic self” to their work and to critically examine the culture in which they cover.
“[How you think] is the thing that changes you from having a job to having a career.”
“Create a space for your kind of thinking,” she said. “…feeling empowered matters.”
Mayos has deep roots in magazines, including stints at Honey and Cosmo Girl and even the Source.
She also talked about the day she played hookie from work to cover and experience the street procession following the funeral of The Notorious B.I.G.
She is credited with giving Mary J. Blige the “Queen of Hip Hop Soul” label back in the day. She visited SU’s Newhouse School as part of the Leaders in Communications series.
Mayo is the second Hampton University graduate we’ve seen speak to the journalism students.
Women’s History Month
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Television producer Erika Green is re-writing the rules of what we expect television to show us.