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Curriculum Vita Chuck Stone Walter Spearman Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication Affiliated Faculty, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies Media and Political Commentator, Channel 14 News, Raleigh Personal Data Hometown Hartford, Conn. Family Married to Louise Davis of Hampton, VA Children: Krishna, Allegra, Charles, III Service Record Flight/ Officer Navigator, World War II 1943-'45 Tuskeegee Airman in the U.S. Army Corps Education A.B., Wesleyan University 1948 M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago 1951 Attended University of Connecticut Law School 1954-'55 Attended Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary Philadelphia 1989-'91 Honorary Doctorates L.H.D. (Doctor of Humane Letters) Winston Salem State Univ. 1999 LittD. (Doctor of Letters) Wesleyan University, CT 1995 L.H.D. (Doctor of Humane Letters) Pembroke State Univ., NC 1992 LittD. (Doctor of Letters) Rider College, NJ 1985 L.H.D. (Doctor of Humanities) Wilberforce University 1977 Educational Experience Walter Spearman Professor, UNC at Chapel Hill 1991-present Professor of English, University of Delaware 1985-1991 Fellow, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University 1982 Visiting Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research 1980 M. Lyle Spencer Visiting Professor, Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse University 1975 Director of Minority Research, Educational Testing Service 1970-1972 John T. Danforth Visiting Professor, Political Science Department, Trinity College, CT 1969 Honors and Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Thomas Jefferson Award, UNC at Chapel Hill 2002 (University's highest faculty award; first African American) Distinguished Service in Journalism Award, University of Missouri School of Journalism 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award, National Association of Black Journalists 1995 Free Spirit Award, Freedom Forum 1994 Undergraduate Excellence-in-Teaching, UNC at Chapel Hill 1992 Lindback Foundation Excellence-in-Teaching, Univ. of Delaware 1989 Professional Experience Senior Editor and Syndicated Columnist, Phila. Daily News 1972-1991 Host, Another Voice, PBS Minority Issues show 1978-1980 Ombudsman, St. Louis Post Dispatch 1977 Commentator, "The Today Show" 1969 Special Assistant, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Chairman, U.S. House Education and Labor Committee 1964-1967 Editor-in-chief, Chicago Daily Defender 1963-1964 Editor and White House Correspondent, Washington Afro-American 1960-1963 Editor, New York Age 1958-1960 Overseas Experience German-American Institute and U.S. Embassy Amerika Haus: University Lectures in Freiberg, Tubingen, Nurenburg, Munich and Frankfort 2002 Moscow State University: Lecturer on Global Censorship, April 2000 Five African Countries Reporting Tour, Phila. Daily News, June 1985-1995 Saratov State University: Lecturer in exchange program April 1993 Northern Ireland Reporting Tour for Phila. Daily News Oct. 1981 Overseas Representative, CARE, Egypt, Gaza and India 1956-1958 Books Published Tell It Like It Is 1968 (collection of newspaper columns) Black Political Power in America 1969 (university text book) King Strut 1969 (novel) Squizzy, the Black Squirrel 2003 (children's book on racial tolerance - with Jeannie Jackson) Contributing Author The Black Power Revolt (Floyd Barbour) 1968 The New Era of Black Political Power (Roe, Rothman & Wilson) 1973 "Black Political Power in Carter Era," The Black Scholar, Jan-Feb. 1977 D.H. Lawrence Review, 1992; "The Censor-Morons of the World: Ubiquitous Usurpers of the Four Literary Freedoms" Books Completed to be Sent to Publishers A Southerner Ahead of His Time: The Life and Works of Walter Spearman Book in Progress: Constitutional Law: The Great Souls of Judicial Inconsistencies (30 Supreme Court Landmark and Disastrous Decisions; the Successess of Jehovah's Witnesses who prevailed in eight of the eleven Supreme Court cases they initiated; the Unsuccesses of Gays and Lesbians in four of five Supreme Court; Excerpts of Canonical Eloquence in the Supreme Court and Lower Court cases). Research, Publications and Activities Relevant to Book in Progress Course on "Censorship" (law, journalism, literature, and history) taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Delaware, and Harvard North Carolina Law Review, 1993: "Thucydides's Law of History: From Kearner, 1968-Hacker, 1998" Lecturer, UNC Law School Annual Festival of Legal Learning "Censorship's New Respectability and Acceptability" 1999 Lecturer on the Law of Libel, Temple Law School 1985 Panelist, Yale Law School with Ron Davenport, Dean, Duquesne Law School, "Civil Rights and Supreme Court Changes," 1983 Panelist with four U.S. judges and three law school deans on program commemorating 250th anniversary of the trial and acquittal of Editor John Peter Zenger for libel; Philadelphia 1985 Service to the University Community University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Member, Board of Advisers, Center for Civil Rights, UNC Law School Member, Board of Directors, North Carolina Writers Association Founding Member, Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars Board Member, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center Member, Board of Directors, Carolina Club Service to Journalism Profession Founding president, National Association of Black Journalists Consultant on editorial changes, The Seattle Times, Oct.-Nov. 1998 Expert witness in libel lawsuits, Time magazine; Fox TV Network; Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News; Temple University Paul Miller Distinguished Lecturer, Oklahoma State University, '99 Service to the Community Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Member, Founding board member, Board of Directors, National Center for Fair & Open Testing, Cambridge, Mass. Speaker, President's Banquet, American College of Surgeons, 1999 Criminal Justice System Activities (Philadelphia, 1981-1991)
Seventy-Five murder suspects surrendered to be escorted to police. Five hostages' release negotiated in a prison, bank, motel and two private homes Named Honorary Federal Warden by U.S. Bureau of Prisons Testified before U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Subcommittee on "criminal three strikes" legislation |