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Black Sportswriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner

Date:
04/12/2025
Time:
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Where:
Student Center Deese Ballroom
Details:

Join us as we honor three of the nation’s most respected Black sportswriters at a special induction ceremony, supported by N.C. A&T’s student chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Associated Press Sports Editors.

The event will be Saturday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Deese Ballroom at the Student Center.

This year’s inductees are William C. Rhoden, columnist for ESPN's Andscape and former New York Times sports columnist; Claire Smith, the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame’s writers' wing, known for her work at The Hartford Courant, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Mike Wilbon, former columnist for The Washington Post and co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption.

Tickets are available for purchase now.

Media Contact Information: Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Lecturer David Squires, drsquire@ncat.edu

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communication