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SOC Bright Lights


Fulbright Specialist Grant
School of C professor Kehbuma Langmia has been awarded a 2015 Fulbright Specialist grant in Communications and Journalism.  He will teach Journalism and Media Studies courses at the University of Buea in Cameroon during the summer of 2015.  Congratulations Dr. Langmia.  We look forward to hearing about his experiences at the University of Buea during the Fulbright.
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SOC Alum Joins Participant Media

 SOC alum Steven Gray is now with Participant Media, "a global entertainment company founded in 2004 by Jeff Skoll to focus on feature film, television, publishing and digital content that inspires social change."  Gray is editorial director, news & social justice for the company’s TakePart magazine based in the New York office. " He will lead the News & Social Justice editorial team covering human rights, legal affairs/criminal justice reform, poverty/income inequality, LGBT issues, and race," according to a staff announcement. Gray has worked for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Time. Link to Participant Media website:

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NNPA Special Report
Alumna Jazelle Hunt is completing a NNPA fellowship project on rape in the Black community. The first two parts of the five-part series are available online at Black Press USA: 
NNPA Special Report
http://www.blackpressusa.com/rape-and-the-myth-of-the-strong-black-woman/#sthash.HyRGPS0h.F1w4Kxpb.dpbs





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