Martha's Vineyard to host race, media conference
PBS Newshour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill and Brandeis University professor Anita Hill are among the high-profile attendees scheduled to appear Wednesday at an annual conference on race on Martha’s Vineyard.
The conference is titled “Heard it through the Grapevine!’’ and is an annual gathering organized by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree and the school’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. It will be held at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
Ifill is one of the few high-profile black anchors on a national news show. This year, will mark the 20th anniversary that Hill was aggressively questioned by U.S. senators during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Also scheduled to attend are New York Times visual Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow and Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury.
Ogletree said the lack of people of color in various media outlets will be a hot topic of discussion, especially after the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Philadelphia earlier this month where members expressed concern about the lack of people of color on networks like CNN.
“The fact that we get a special on blacks or Latinos by Soledad O’Brien is one thing,’’ Ogletree said. “But if we don’t have a Soledad O’Brien anchoring a show on regularly … it means that we’ve taken a step backward.’’
Ogletree said attendees also will see clips of recent media events involving race and ethnicity. Panelists will discuss the effects of those recent events.
One example Ogletree said he wanted to discuss was a Chicago CBS affiliate’s newscast in June on gang violence in which a black 4-year-old boy was recorded telling a reporter he wanted to get a gun. The newscast edited out the boy’s follow up statement that he wanted a gun because he wanted to be a police officer. The report drew fire from civil rights groups and the station later said the report was a mistake.
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and is an annual gathering organized by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree and the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. It will be held at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
and is an annual gathering organized by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree and the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. It will be held at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
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Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British poet of World War I.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley’s favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident in many of his pre-war poems, including “Rain” and “The Song of the Ungirt Runners”. Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany, three months of which were at Schwerin studying the language and local culture. Then he enrolled at the University of Jena, and studied there up to the outbreak of World War I.
After Britain declared war on Germany, Sorley was detained for an afternoon in Trier, but released on the same day and told to leave the country.
Robert Graves, a contemporary of Sorley’s, described him in his book Goodbye to All That as “one of the three poets of importance killed during the war”. (The other two were Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen.) Sorley may be seen as a forerunner of Sassoon and Owen, and his unsentimental style stands in direct contrast to that of Rupert Brooke. Sorley’s last poem was recovered from his kit after his death, and includes some of his most famous lines:
Sorley’s sole work was published posthumously in January 1916 and immediately became a critical success, with six editions printed that year. Sorley is regarded by some, including the Poet Laureate John Masefield (1878–1967), as the greatest loss of all the poets killed during the war. On November 11, 1985, Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by Wilfred Owen. It reads: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.