Award-winning journalist Trymaine Lee ’03 to speak at 19th annual Rosa Parks Luncheon | Rowan Today

Award-winning journalist and podcast host Trymaine Lee ’03 will be the keynote speaker for the 19^th Rosa Parks Annual Luncheon on Tuesday, February 27 at Rowan University.

Lee (right), who earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rowan, is the host of NBC News’ “Into America” ​​podcast and an MSNBC correspondent.

Open to the public, lunch begins at 11 a.m. in the Eynon Room of the Chamberlain Student Center, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro. Tickets are $65 for general admission, $50 for students. You can buy tickets online.

All proceeds from the luncheon, sponsored by the African Studies Programsupports the Gary Hunter Memorial Scholarship, awarded to deserving undergraduate students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. hunter, a history A professor who died in 2003, he was one of the founders of Africana Studies at Rowan.

Lee was a member of the 2006 New Orleans Times-Picayune news team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She also won an Emmy for her reporting on gun violence and trauma in Chicago as part of a series and a one-hour special on MSNBC.

He is the co-host, along with Charles Coleman Jr., of “Black Men in America: Road to 2024,” airing this month on MSNBC.

Lee, who previously received the Emerging Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Black Journalists, was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project.” He has reported for numerous local and national media outlets, including The New York Times and Huffington Post.

In his talk, Lee, who grew up in Chesilhurst, will discuss his personal story, his experiences as a journalist and his upcoming book about race, trauma and gun violence in America.

Lee graduated from the Milton S. Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania. At Rowan, he wrote for The Whit, Rowan’s student newspaper, and was involved in the Black Student Union.

In 2019, he received the Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement and spoke at the graduation ceremony For him Ric Edelman College of Communication and Creative Arts.

As part of Rowan’s celebration of Black History Month, the luncheon honors Parks, widely considered the “mother of the civil rights movement.” Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955 helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.

“Amplifying African American Voices through the Arts and Politics” is the theme of this year’s Black History Month.

For lunch information, contact Denise Williams, 856-256-4818, or Julie Peterson, 856-256-4596.