No Secrets, No Lies & My Times in Black & White

09/18/2010 6:00 pm
09/18/2010 11:00 pm

Journalist
Robin Stone will be the keynote speaker on Saturday Sept. 18, 2010,
6-11pm, at Helen Butler Hall in Amityville. The event is a gala dinner
for Mustard Seed Survivor Empowerment Foundation, a non-profit
organization that counsels survivors of sexual

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Boyd's appointment to the role of managing editor of the New York Times in 2001 made him the first African-American to hold one of the paper's top two editing positions, and his leadership helped the Times garner numerous Pulitzers. But colleagues found him gruff and imposing—a perception he attributed to racial bias—and he was forced to resign after a young reporter named Jayson Blair was caught plagiarizing and fabricating stories in 2003.

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Expanding on an article she wrote for Essence, where she is a former executive editor, Stone advocates many standard methods for recognizing and coping with abuse. But while the rates of sexual victimization, Stone shows, are the same for blacks and whites, "Black American women were more likely to have withheld reports of attempted rape from authorities" and "were more likely to blame their living circumstances" for an attack.

Location: 
Street:
Helen Butler Hall
Additional:
565 Albany Ave.
City:
Amityville
,
Province:
New York
Postal Code:
11701
Country:
United States