Book George Curry: Distinguished Glaude Productions Client - Media, Political & Diversity Expert

Aug. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Glaude Productions Client George Curry is a syndicated columnist for the National Newspapers Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 newspapers; the Philadelphia Inquirer and TheDefendersOnline, the news site of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.  Curry has covered numerous groundbreaking international events including the International Peace Foundation "Building a Culture of Peace and Development in a Globalized World" in Malaysia and Thailand and the XVIII International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna.  The University of Missouri presented Curry its Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, an honor bestowed on such luminaries as Walter Cronkite, John H. Johnson, Joseph Pulitzer and Sir Winston Churchill.  Curry's Commencement Addresses at Kentucky State University and Lane College in Jackson, TN, culminated in his being honored with Doctor of Humane Letters Degree awards.

While serving as editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, Curry was elected as president of the American Society of Magazine Editors.  Prior to joining Emerge, Curry served as New York Bureau Chief and Washington Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune where he wrote and served as Chief Correspondent for the widely-praised television documentary, "Assault on Affirmative Action," part of the PBS "Frontline" series. Curry also worked for 11 years as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and for two years as a reporter for Sports Illustrated.

Curry has the ability to draw from decades of inner sanctum Washington DC politics. As Editor-In-Chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) News Service in Washington, D.C., Curry reported from inside the Supreme Court, hearing oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. In his 40 years as a journalist, Curry has traveled to Doha, Qatar to report on America's war with Iraq, visited Torino, Italy to cover a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) delegation that institutionalized the concept of non-violence, and to Accra, Ghana to cover the 50th anniversary of that nation’s independence.

Under Curry's leadership, Emerge won more than 40 national journalism awards. As a reporter for the Tribune, Curry covered the 1984 Presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson and the Vice Presidential campaigns of Geraldine Ferraro and the senior George Bush. He accompanied Jesse Jackson to Rome in 1985 for an audience with Pope John Paul II. In 1992, Curry covered the Presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and the Vice Presidential campaign of Senator Al Gore.  Listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among Black Americans, Curry was editor of the National Urban League’s 2006 State of Black America report.    

Curry was part of the weeklong Nightline special, "America in Black and White."  He has also appeared on the CBS Evening News, ABC’s World News Tonight, The Today Show, 20/20, Good Morning America, CNN, C-SPAN, BET, Fox Network News, MSNBC and ESPN.  The National Association of Black Journalists named Curry its 2003 "Journalist of the Year."    
 
Curry is Chairman of the Knoxville College Board of Trustees, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kemba N. Smith Foundation, St. Paul Saturdays, a leadership training program for young African-American males in St. Louis; and Young DC, a regional teen-produced newspaper.  He was also a Trustee of the National Press Foundation, chairing a committee that funded more than 15 workshops patterned after the one he directed in St. Louis where he became the founding director of the St. Louis Minority Journalism Workshop in 1977. Seven years later, he became Founding Director of the Washington Association of Black Journalists' Annual High School Journalism Workshop and in February 1990, Curry organized a similar workshop in New York City.  
 
Curry's work with aspiring journalists has not been limited to the United States. He has conducted journalism workshops for teens in Germany and in 1995 he directed a program that brought together college journalism students in the U.S. and Senegal to produce two newspapers for the African/African-American Summit in Dakar, Senegal. His work in journalism has also taken him to Egypt, England, France, Cuba, Ghana, Nigeria, Mexico, Canada, and Italy.  Curry was featured in a segment of "One Plus One," a national PBS documentary on mentoring.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Curry graduated from Druid High School of that city before enrolling at Knoxville College in Tennessee.  At Knoxville, Curry was Editor of the school paper, quarterback and co-captain of the football team, a student member of the school's Board of Trustees and attended Harvard and Yale on summer history scholarships.

Curry is a member of the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers. His speeches have been televised on C-SPAN and reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day magazine.

GEORGE CURRY ON DIVERSITY:
For the time in history, the year 2050 will show a swift change in demographics whereby no majority race will exist.  How will this impact you and business?

In the year 2020, the United States of America will need 14 million trained working graduates who will produce; otherwise an unskilled labor pool will be unable to pay into Social Security.

GEORGE CURRY, AUTHOR:
Curry is the author of Jake Gaither: America's Most Famous Black Coach (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1977), editor of The Affirmative Action Debate (Perseus Books, 1996) and The Best of Emerge Magazine, (Ballantine Books, 2003).  Curry also contributed chapters to three anthologies: The Darden Dilemma: 12 Black Writers on Justice, Race and Conflicting Loyalties, edited by Ellis Cose (Harper Perennial, 1997); Walter Mosley's Black Genius: African American Solutions To African American Problems (W. W. Norton, 1999) and Bill Clinton and Black America, edited by DeWayne Wickham (Ballantine, 2002).

CURRY'S Topics: Motivation, Diversity, Current Events, Education, Future Careers
www.georgecurry.com

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