{"id":29287,"date":"2023-12-13T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29287"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:26:18","slug":"nprs-eric-deggans-to-speak-at-mlk-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nprs-eric-deggans-to-speak-at-mlk-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR\u2019s Eric Deggans to speak at MLK Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Deggans, NPR\u2019s TV critic and media analyst, will be the featured speaker at this year\u2019s MLK Community Breakfast, with a talk titled \u201cBuilding Bridges Not Walls: Decoding the Media\u2019s Confusing Coverage of Race, Gender &amp; Culture.\u201d The event will be Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center on Furman University\u2019s campus. The breakfast begins at 8 a.m. with the program following at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The event is an annual opportunity for the community to join Furman students, faculty and staff to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tickets ($50 per person, $400 for a table of eight) are available <a href=\"https:\/\/alumnievents.furman.edu\/e\/2024-mlk-community-breakfast-with-eric-deggans\/\">here<\/a>. Proceeds support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/financial-aid\/aid-types\/merit-based-scholarships\/\">Joseph Vaughn Scholarships<\/a> at Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Deggans, a journalist for more than 30 years, is the author of &#8220;Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.&#8221; The book looks at how prejudice, racism and sexism fuel elements of modern media.<\/p>\n<p>Deggans teaches classes on race, media, reporting and writing as an adjunct instructor at Duke University&#8217;s Sanford School of Public Policy and Indiana University&#8217;s Media School. He is a member of the National Advisory Board for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and chair of the Media Monitoring Committee for the National Association of Black Journalists. From 2017 to 2022, he served as a media analyst\/contributor for MSNBC and NBC News and, in August 2013, he guest-hosted CNN\u2019s media analysis show Reliable Sources several times.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Deggans served as the first African American chairman of the board of educators, journalists and media experts who select the George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in electronic media. His one-year tenure as chair capped a total six years he served on the board of jurors.<\/p>\n<p>The MLK Breakfast also features comments by Furman University President Elizabeth Davis, Pastor Reggie Garrett \u201998 from Jubilee Baptist Church, Furman student and Furman NCAA Chapter President Miles Baker \u201924, a musical selection by Cameron Mitchell \u201925, Coordinator of Outreach and Access and Furman Libraries Diversity Coordinator Robyn Andrews, and Furman\u2019s Director of Community Relations and State Representative Chandra Dillard.<\/p>\n<p>The MLK Breakfast at Furman is one of several events honoring King. Other activities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MLK Day of Reflection and Service sponsored by the Heller Service Corps at Furman, Monday, Jan. 15, 10 a.m. Contact <a href=\"mailto:nancy.cooper@furman.edu\">nancy.cooper@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Furman and Alpha Phi Alpha will host the Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Program and Rudolph Gordon College Fair. Saturday, Feb. 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Trone Student Center at Furman. Contact <a href=\"mailto:mlkfair@alphagreenville.org\">mlkfair@alphagreenville.org<\/a> or 864-441-9067.<\/li>\n<li>The Joseph Vaughn Oratorical Contest is on Saturday, Feb. 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Wade Hampton High School. Contact <a href=\"mailto:jvoc@alphagreenville.org\">jvoc@alphagreenville.org<\/a> or 864-441-9067.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deggans, who also teaches on race and the media at Duke University and Indiana University, will talk about decoding &#8220;the media&#8217;s confusing coverage of race, gender and culture.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":29288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[2359,124,2428],"class_list":["post-29287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","tag-community","tag-dei","tag-mlk-breakfast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}