Award-winning journalist, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, Joe Starita is teaching the course 'Being Black in Lincoln'.
Students who take the class will examine the question: What’s It Like to Be Black in Lincoln in 2021? It will display the complex range of answers to that question in a variety of ways – in print, on video, via a class website and through community-wide public discussions.
15 students will be chosen to write major profiles of 12 Black residents of Lincoln. Those 12 residents will represent a diverse cross-section of Lincoln’s Black community – from politicians, preachers, teachers and athletes to businessmen and women, students, BLM leaders and single mothers raising young children with few resources.
These stories will be scrupulously researched, written and edited and will appear in the Lincoln Journal Star on 12 consecutive weeks – a weekly mirror for Lincoln residents to peer into and see an aspect of the community largely hidden from their view.
Apply to be in the course 'Being Black in Lincoln' here: https://journalism.unl.edu/being-black-lincoln
To see a full list of Spring 2020 special topics courses and their descriptions look here: https://journalism.unl.edu/special-topics