Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Sq. – map) | Auditorium | 6:00 p.m.
The Festival kicks off on Friday evening with award-winning journalist, social activist, author, and public intellectual Juan González, co-host of Democracy Now.
5:30 p.m. | Registration/check-in
6:00 p.m. | An Evening with Juan González
- Welcome by Christina Milletti, Interim Director, UB Humanities Institute
- Introduction by Andrea Pitts, Interim Executive Director, UB Humanities Institute
- Talk by Juan González followed by Q+A moderated by Andrea Pitts
About Juan González
Juan González has emerged over the past 50 years as a nationally known Latino journalist, social activist, author, and public intellectual. He was a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now, a daily morning news show that airs on more than 1,500 community and public radio and television stations across the US and Latin America.
His investigative reports on urban policy, race relations, the labor movement and Latin America have garnered numerous accolades, including two George Polk Awards for commentary, and in 2015 he became the first Latino to be inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists New York Journalism Hall of Fame.
Before he entered journalism, González was a well-known 1960s activist, as a key figure of the Columbia University student revolt of 1968, and later as a leader of the militant Puerto Rican group the Young Lords, and of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights.
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