WAUKESHA – Long time Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial writer and columnist Gregory Stanford will give a Visions & Expressions presentation at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha at noon Thursday, October 12, on “Race: We’re All in This Together.” He will speak in Room 101 of the Commons on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha.
Sponsored by the Lectures & Fine Arts Committee in support of the campus’s 2006-07 common read theme centered on race, the lecture is open to the public at no charge.
Having started at what was then The Milwaukee Journal in 1971, Stanford will draw on his knowledge of the community in sizing up where the metropolitan area currently stands on “race,” which he calls “America’s main unfinished business.” In doing so, he will try to link what happens on 3rd Street and North Avenue in Milwaukee with what happens on Bluemound Road and Highway J in Waukesha. Finally, he will explore ways that society can get past the issue of race.
As a reporter, he covered the black struggle for equality, the federal courts, and city development and neighborhoods, among other assignments. In 1988, he joined the editorial board of The Milwaukee Journal and has remained a member of it for the combined paper since the Journal merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1995. In his editorial writing, he concentrates on education, welfare, crime and punishment, housing and neighborhoods, labor and employment, law and the courts, and civil rights and minority issues.
Stanford has taught journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has organized and run writers’ workshops for middle-school children. From 1968-70 he was editor of the Soul City Times, a community newspaper in Milwaukee.
A native of Washington, D.C., Stanford initially came to Milwaukee in 1964 to attend Marquette University. Now he serves on the advisory board of Diederich College of Communications at Marquette and is past president of the Wisconsin Black Media Association, a chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.
He has won numerous journalism and community service awards, including Marquette’s 2004 Byline Award, given annually to a distinguished communications alumnus; a 1993 National Headliner Award for column writing; and The Milwaukee Journal’s 1990 Richard S. Davis Award, that paper’s highest writing honor.
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