Gary Jackson’s love for comics began with a childhood gift from his mother — an assorted bundle of comic books she ordered from a Sears catalog. Among them was an issue of Uncanny X-Men featuring Storm as a 12-year-old girl struggling to reconcile her adult memories with her new reality.
According to the Pew Research Center, Black journalists only represent 6% of all current working journalists.
Liann Tsoukas, a teaching professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, was interviewed by KDKA for a story on Mal Goode. Mal was the first black network news correspondent to work as a national television correspondent in the United States.
This story was originally published in PittWire by Kara Elyse Henderson, photography by Tom Altany
Black history? A bake off? What could be better!? Join the English Department at the Dietrich School for Douglass Day at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, February 14 from 12-3 PM in the Robert Henderson Language Media Center (Cathedral of Learning G17). Douglass Day celebrates Frederick Douglass’s chosen birthday (Valentine’s Day) and represents an opportunity to discover and contribute to Black history by transcribing historical documents.
