{"id":33940,"date":"2004-05-14T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33940"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:59","slug":"leonard-pitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/05\/14\/leonard-pitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to discuss Brown vs. Board of Education decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/05\/72pittsleonard.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/05\/72pittsleonard.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Leonard Pitts Jr.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, will give a lecture titled <em>The Light That Failed<\/em> about the 50-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. the Board of Education at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, in the Bates College Chapel. The public is invited to attend this special session of the Great Falls Forum, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pitts has been writing professionally since 1976 when, as an 18-year-old college student, he began doing freelance reviews and profiles for Soul, a national black entertainment tabloid.\u00a0 Pitts&#8217; work has appeared in such publications as Musician, Spin, TV Guide, Reader&#8217;s Digest and Parenting. He joined the Miami Herald in 1991 as its pop music critic. Since 1994, he has penned a critically acclaimed syndicated column of commentary on pop culture, social issues and family life. His most recent book, <em>Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood <\/em>(Longstreet Press, 1999), was called &#8220;clear-eyed and searching&#8221; by Essence magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors for the Pitts talk include the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Lewiston Sun Journal, St. Mary&#8217;s Regional Medical Center and the Lewiston Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, will give a lecture titled The Light That Failed about the 50-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. the Board of Education at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, in the Bates College Chapel. The public is invited to attend this special session of the Great Falls Forum, free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-humanities-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90701,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940\/revisions\/90701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}