UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 6
October 10, 1996
Black power in politics topic

     Noted journalist Chuck Stone, former UD professor of
English, will return to the campus on Thursday, Oct. 17, for a
program entitled "Black Power in American Politics, Media and
Education: A Conversation with Chuck Stone."
     The talk, free and open to the public, will be held at 4
p.m. in Room 115 of Purnell Hall.
     Stone is currently the Spearman Professor of Journalism at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has had a
distinguished career in journalism, politics and education. In
addition to his 4,000 newspaper columns, magazine stories and
scholarly essays, he is the author of three books, Tell It Like
It is, Black Political Power in America and a novel, King Strut.
     In the dawning years of the civil rights movement, he was
editor of three influential black newspapers, Harlem's New York
Age, the Washington Afro-American and the Chicago Daily Defender.
     For three years, he was chief administrative assistant to
Harlem's charismatic and controversial U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell Jr., writing the legislator's speeches and helping to
direct the strikingly successful legislative activities of the
House Education and Labor Committee, which Powell chaired.
     From 1972 to 1991, Stone was a political columnist and
senior editor at the Philadelphia Daily News, where his ongoing
battles with Mayors Frank Rizzo and Wilson Goode and with U.S.
Representative Bill Gray made him the best-known journalist in
Philadelphia. He has won numerous major awards since his
retirement.
     For more information, call 831-2361.