Monday, April 10, 2023, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Sheth Distinguished Lecture on Creativity in Later Life*

Hank Klibanoff

Introduction – Rosemary Magee

Hank Klibanoff, a veteran journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a Peabody Award-winning podcast host, is a Professor of Practice in Emory's Creative Writing Program. He co-authored The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history.

Prior to joining Emory, Klibanoff was a reporter and editor for more than 35 years, holding various reporting and editing positions in Mississippi, at The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and serving as a managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has an undergraduate degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

He directs the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (coldcases.emory.edu), for which students examine Georgia's modern civil rights history through the investigation of unsolved and unpunished racially motivated murders. His podcast based on the project, titled "Buried Truths," produced by WABE public radio station has won Peabody, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward R. Murrow awards. The fourth season, underway now, relies on personal letters, investigative files, case notes, and legal proceedings to bring to life the unjust murders of two black men killed without legal cause in 1958 Terrell County.

*Made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Jagdish and Mrs. Madhu Sheth