April 19: Media Day Lecture on Vietnam Black Soldiers Portrait Project

Tuesday, April 19, 2022
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ostrander Auditorium

Mankato, Minn. – The Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Mass Communication’s annual Media Day lecture will feature a presentation on the Vietnam Black Soldiers Portrait Project by Johnny Crawford on Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in Centennial Student Union’s Ostrander Auditorium.

Crawford’s presentation, free and open to the public, is made possible by the University’s College of Arts and Humanities Nadine B. Andreas Endowment.

According to the Vietnam Black Soldiers Portrait Project website, the project’s mission is to educate Americans about the Black men and women who served, suffered and died while fighting for democracy and civil rights on behalf of the people in South Vietnam, even though they did not have the rights themselves.

Johnny Crawford, according to his online biography, is an award-winning visual storyteller and educator from Jackson, Georgia, who has documented the human spirit in 45 states and four continents for 39 years. He spent 28 years as a staff photographer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, photographing several Olympic games and five U.S. presidents. Crawford holds a master’s degree in photojournalism from Ohio University and bachelor’s degrees in psychology and mass communications from Morehouse College.

For more information, please contact Jen Tiernan, a mass communication faculty member at Minnesota State Mankato, by email at jen.tiernan@mnsu.edu or by phone at 507-389-6417.

Mass communication at Minnesota State Mankato is part of the University’s College of Arts and Humanities.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,546 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.