Thomas Fortune Project Symposium at Brookdale

307

LINCROFT – The T. Thomas Fortune Project has announced an upcoming symposium with
a distinguished panel that includes, Les Payne, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and founder 
and past president of National Association of Black Journalists.
The symposium, “Shining a Light on Today: The Legacy of Thomas T. Fortune,” will be presented from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 14, in the Twin Lights Room of the Warner Student Center at Brookdale Community College, located at 765 Newman Springs Road.
The day will feature a continental breakfast, a panel discussion and the keynote address delivered by Walter Greason, history professor at Monmouth University.
The symposium is free of charge but registration is required and may be completed by logging on to: www.eventbrite.com/e/shining-a-light-on-today-registration-11301770901.
T. Thomas Fortune lived in Red Bank more than 100 years ago yet much of what he fought for has not been fully realized. Fortune, a 19th- and 20th-century editor, publisher and author was a staunch defender of human and civil rights for both African-Americans and other marginalized people He was the publisher and founder of three New York newspapers, including the New York Age, the foremost African-American publication of its time.
The T. Thomas Fortune Project is an organization created to save, preserve and restore Fortune’s former Red Bank home at 94 Drs. Parker Blvd. turn it into a cultural research center.