Juan will be speaking on the increasingly complex and contested issue of migration and politics in the United States, in advance of the national elections of November 8. His talk is “Latinos, Immigration, and the Race for President” and takes place on Monday, October 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Main Library 66. The talk will be followed by a question and answer period and then a book signing.
The event is generously co-sponsored by:
*Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
*Department of Spanish and Portuguese
*Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
*Department of Latina/Latino Studies
*Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy
*Woman and Gender in a Global Perspective
Juan González has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years and a staff columnist at the New York Daily News since 1987. He is a two-time recipient of the George Polk Award for commentary (1998 and 2010), and the first reporter in New York City to consistently expose the health effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks and the cover-up of these hazards by government officials.
He is a founder and past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and a member of NAHJ’s Hall of Fame. During his term as NAHJ president, González created the Parity Project, an innovative program that creates partnerships between local communities and media organizations to improve coverage of the Latino community and recruit and retain more Hispanic journalists. He also spearheaded a movement among U.S. journalists to join other citizen groups in opposing the Federal Communications Commission’s deregulation of media ownership restrictions. A founding member of the Young Lords Party in the 1970s and of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights in 1980s, González has twice been named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the country’s most influential Hispanics and has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Puerto Rican Coalition.
González has written four books: Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse, documents cover-ups by Environmental Protection Agency and government officials with regard to health hazards at Ground Zero in New York (The New Press, 2004), Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Penguin Book, 2001); and Roll Down Your Window: Stories of a Forgotten America (Verso, 1996). His latest book, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media (Verso, 2012), co-authored with Joseph Torres, is a landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.
Thanks to Dara Goldman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for this information item.
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6th Annual Disability Awareness Program “University of Illinois and Beyond” on 11/2/16
6th Annual Disability Awareness Program “University of Illinois and Beyond” is on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. in SDRP Multipurpose Rooms (2nd floor, ABC). Any and all disability-related questions will be answered by a Beckwith Resident Panel, and features Keynote Speakers David and Jen Kuriniec, 2011 JD College of Law. Get free food and drinks! Enter to win giveaways!
If you require disability-related accommodations, please contact Susann Sears at (217) 333-4602 or sheft@illinois.edu as soon as possible.
Thanks to CHP alumna Kathleen Downes for this information item.
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