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Blackness and Anti-Blackness in American Public Life

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Join us Wednesday, March 31st 4:30pm-6pm EST With a welcome from School of Communication Dean Karin Wilkins, and opening remarks from Dr. Jafari Allen, director of the UM Africana Studies Program. Blackness has been (and continues to be) under attack globally, but particularly within our country. As universities grapple with some of the wider-ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars engage questions about the relationship of racial identity to social movements, media production, and intellectual property. Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan draws from her most-recent book Black Feelings: [...]

The Olympics, FIFA and Media Relations

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Saint-Clair Milesi is a strategic communications consultant based in Paris since 2015. He graduated in journalism/PR from Arizona State and has an MBA in Sports Administration. As a journalist, he edited Rio de Janeiro’s leading online source of news O Globo, leaving to become a media advisor to the U.S. State Department in Brazil, in 2006. Later, in 2008, he joined the adventure to bring the Olympic Games for a first time to South America handling communication for Rio 2016 winning bid. Saint-Clair then became the Communications Director of the [...]

Gaining Access in the Media Business

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On Monday, February 28, at 6:30 pm, Brian Norris, Senior Vice President, Direct to Scale & Commerce Partnerships, Ad Sales at NBCUniversal Media, will speak about gaining access in the media business, including diversity issues.