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Extra Credit | April BBCJA

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Bruins,

The Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals has an upcoming Journalism Academy on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at 7:00 pm (Eastern). If you are interested in attending, use this link to join the Zoom.

The purpose of the Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy (BBCJA) is to give students an opportunity to express themselves, utilizing whatever media format they are most interested in.

This month’s session will focus on Race Relations, Law Enforcement, and the Role of Corporate America.

Activity #1:

Write an op ed article or create a political cartoon that answers one of the following questions:

  1. What is your opinion of police in wake of the following current events: the Derek Chauvin Trial, the shooting at Brooklyn Center, the police stop in Windsor and the shooting of a 13-year-old in Chicago?
  2. The All-Star Game recently pulled out of Georgia in response to the new voting law. What role should businesses and organizations play when it comes to race relations in this country?

Activity #2:

Interview your school’s resource officer or someone you know in law enforcement about their relationship with young people and minority communities. (Either replay the interview during Wednesday’s Academy session or prepare to share commentary on that interview.)

  1. What are their thoughts about the recent current events? 
  2. Has their view of the job changed at all due to recent current events?  
  3. What do they see as their role when it comes to building bridges?

Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend and participate in the Journalism Academy on April 21, 2021, at 7:00 pm. 
 5 Comment below 4-5 detailed sentences about what you learned from this experience of participating in the Journalism Academy by 11:59 pm April 26, 2021. 
  • Complete Activity #1 or Activity #2.
 20 Submit your high-quality original story, interview, animation, or public service campaign to Bear Facts for publishing consideration. You must email me your creation by 11:59 pm April 30, 2021. 

Extra Credit | Charles E. Cobb Lecture

NJHExtra Credit

Distinguished journalist, educator and activist Charles E. Cobb will deliver University of North Carolina’s 2021 African American History Month Lecture on Tuesday, February 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom. 

Cobb1 is a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he originated the idea of Freedom Schools as a part of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. The memo he wrote described a project where schools should be designed to “fill an intellectual and creative vacuum in the lives of young Negro Mississippians.”

UNC’s African American History Month Lecture is an annual tradition that brings leading scholars and activists whose work centers on the lives of African Americans from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The lecture is open to the entire campus as well as the surrounding community and is the University’s major programming initiative to recognize the importance of African American histories nationally, statewide and on campus. 

If you are interested earning extra credit for attending this virtual event, continue reading below. 

CHALLENGE | What do you think of Mr. Cobb’s African American History Month? What did you learn? What was the most interesting about the lecture? What was the least interesting? Why? After watching the lecture, what questions did you walk away with? Explain in detail with examples to support your ideas. 

*Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend the entire African American History Month Lecture at 6: 30 pm on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Click here for the Zoom link. 
 10  Successfully complete the verification form:

  •  Submit a screenshot a moment from the Mr. Charles E. Cobb Lecture
  • Respond to the challenge questions.

*Complete the verification form before 11:59 pm on February 25, 2021.

 

  1. Brief Biography: Charles E. Cobb began his career as a journalist in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997, Cobb was a National Geographic staff member. He is the coauthor, with civil rights organizer and educator Robert P. Moses, of Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (2002) and the author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (2007) and This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (2014). While a visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University in the 2000s, he designed and taught a course called “The Organizing Tradition of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” His current work includes an essay in Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain’s edited volume 400 Souls: A Community History of African Americans 1619-2019 and a forthcoming book for Duke University Press, tentatively titled Get in the Way!: Protest, Politics and the Movement for Black Lives. ↩

Extra Credit | Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy

NJHExtra Credit

Bruins,

The Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals has an upcoming Journalism Academy on February 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm (Eastern). If you are interested in attending, use this link to join the Zoom.

The purpose of the Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy is to give students an opportunity to express themselves, utilizing whatever media format they are most interested in.

This month’s session will focus on the COVID vaccine.

You are encouraged to investigate the new COVID-19 vaccines, interview someone about their experience either getting the vaccine, waiting to get the vaccine, or why they have decided against taking it.

Here are a few ways to capture an original story about the new COVID-19 vaccines:

  • Write a story from an interview about the new COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Record an interview using your phone. (Make sure you ask permission first.)
  • Create an animation surrounding the new COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Design a public service campaign about the vaccine.

Extra Credit:

Activity Points  Points Verification Task(s)
  • Attend and participate in the Journalism Academy on February 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm. 
 5 Comment below 4-5 detailed sentences about what you learned from this experience of participating in the Journalism Academy by 11:59 pm February 19, 2020. 
  • Capture an original story about the new COVID-19 vaccines.
 20 Submit your high-quality original story, interview, animation, or public service campaign to Bear Facts for publishing consideration. You must mail me your creation by 11:59 pm March 1, 2020.