Black History Month: Its Importance and the Relevance of Coverage by Foreign Journalists

In this Educational Program, foreign journalists will learn the history and origins of the Black History Month and get valuable insights that could be used for their daily coverage about American Black history.

This interview was conducted on March 12 by journalist Patricia Vasconcellos, Board Member of the Club of Foreign Correspondents in the USA (AFPC-USA) and White House Correspondent for the Brazilian TV Network SBT.

The speaker is Luvell Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, New York, and Affiliate Faculty member of Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies. 

Anderson is an associate professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, New York, and an Affiliate Faculty member of Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies. Anderson earned his PhD. in Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. He is the author of several articles on the semantics and pragmatics of racial slurs, epistemic injustice, and racial humor. 

Anderson is currently writing the books Ethics of Racial Humor (OUP) and The Philosophy of Race and Racism (Routledge). His research and teaching interests include philosophy of language, African American philosophy, aesthetics, humor, and social ontology.