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Sharing success Public Relations Award CHSOC alumnus Alex Hill is the recipient of the inaugural Ofield Dukes Millennial Excellence in Public Relations Award. He received the award at the Ofield Dukes Excellence in Public Relations Awards event on Oct. 21 st at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C. Hill works for Miles Ahead Entertainment and is also president/CEO of Humble Hill Public Relations. Two of our current students -- Salina Kamara and Rickey Davis -- received the 2017 Ofield Dukes Scholarships. The awards event was held in honor of Ofield Dukes, a ground breaking Public Relations expert, who started Ofield Dukes & Associates and also taught at Howard University. He died in 2011. The event was sponsored by the National Black Public Relations Society, Washington, D.C. Chapter .
Homecoming 2017! Welcome Home Alumni & Friends Homecoming Coming 2017 - Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 Cathy Hughes School of Communications (CHSOC) Research/Creative Works Showcase noon - 2 p.m., (Room 118, CB Powell Bldg.) Department Open Houses 2 - 4 p.m., (CB Powell Bldg.) CHSOC Alumni Reception 4 - 6 p.m., in3, Inclusive Innovation Incubator Center, 2301 D Georgia Ave., across from McDonald's) ### Student Film debut CHSOC junior Mansur K. Rashid recently held a screening of his award-winning film Same Fruit, Different Tree on Sept. 13th in Screening Room West, CB Powell Bldg. The film focuses on different risks that black youths face in society. The film was a finalist in a number of film festivals and won Best Film at the Burien Film Festival’s Short Film Exhibition, and a 2017 Paul Robeson Award in the Media, Journalism and Film Department. He is a television and film major who is minoring in photography. Rashid recently spent a semester abroad in
A $1 million dollar smile... Two MFA film alums get the picture Filmmaker Faraday Okoro Source: Phillip David Nondorf/New York Times photo The chance of a lifetime at a $1 million grant to make a feature film is what young filmmakers were offered by AT&T in partnership with Tribeca Institute. We are proud to share the winners are School of C MFA film alums and screenwriting partners, Farady Okoro and Andrew Long, who pitched their screenplay, Nigerian Prince. They won the $1 million to develop their film, which will be featured at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. The winning film will stream on AT&T platforms, including DirecTV Now, according to Cara Buckley's New York Times story. Congratulations to our alum. See the story at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/movies/how-to-win-1-million-for-your-film-pitch-pitch-pitch.html?_r=0 ### School of C student wins Fulbright Jakiya Pyron , of New Jersey, is one of four students and two alumni winners
CHSOC Alum on the Move! featured in Howard Magazine NICOLE BLACK: CO-OWNER, PHILADELPHIA DIAMOND COMPANY BY: BRIAHNNA BROWN Like the diamonds she sells, Nicole Black (B.A. ’92) became the embodiment of The Howard Woman while under pressure. “ The Howard Woman is bold,” Black said. “She’s resilient, she’s a trendsetter, she’s unbelievably resourceful, she’s a groundbreaker, she’s fearless, she’s conscious.” As co-owner of the Philadelphia Diamond Company, with her husband, Kenyatta Black, Nicole Black credits a great deal of her success to the opportunities she was given while a student in the School of Communications. ALUMNIPROFILE---NicoleBlack-QueenCut2.jpg “When you have the exposure at Howard where it’s like you can make a way out of no way ... day in and day out ... that really set me on a course of success, quite frankly,” Black said. While at Howard, she knew she wanted to focus on public relations, so she landed an internshi