BLACK HISTORY MONTH

ITS ALWAYS BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Born in 1935 was a journalist who documented the Black Panthers from the inside in the 1970s, and became embroiled in a key Supreme Court decision clarifying reporters' rights. The case started when the FBI tried to press Caldwell to be an informant against the Black Panther Party. He worked for The New York Times, New York Daily News, The New York Amsterdam News and is currently on the radio in New York. His career as a journalist spans more than four decades. He is also a founding member of the steering committee of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, as well as the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Caldwell is a nationally renowned journalist who has witnessed and chronicled some of the most important civil rights events of the past 40 years and was the only reporter present when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. As a writer-in-residence, Caldwell is writing "The Caldwell Journals," a serialized account of the black journalist movement spawned by the 1960s civil rights movement. Caldwell previously served as the Scripps Howard Endowed Chair at HU.