Minnesota Public Radio will broadcast an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson that was conducted at the University of St. Thomas on Nov. 10, 2011.
Isabel Wilkerson
The program can be heard at noon Wednesday, March 27, on the “Minnesota Public Radio News Presents” program at 91.1 FM.
Wilkerson was interviewed by MPR’s Stephen Smith as part of the Broadcast Journalism Series sponsored by the station and St. Thomas’ College of Arts and Sciences and its Communication and Journalism Department.
Wilkerson is the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism and is the author of the multiple-award winning The Warmth of Other Suns, in which she chronicles the decades-long movement of blacks out of the Jim Crow South into the North, Midwest and West in search of opportunity and freedom.
The program also can be heard via the Internet. Information is available here.
