Pulitzer Prize winner highlights UNG/Gainesville's Black History Month events

GAINESVILLE - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hank Klibanoff will speak Wednesday on behalf of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project in one of several events honoring Black History Month at the University of North Georgia (UNG).<br /> <br /> Klibanoff's project uses multimedia reporting to investigate unsolved racial murders during the modern civil rights era in the South. He will be speaking from noon to 1:00 on UNG's Gainesville Campus, in the Cleveland Ballroom, room 3110B in the Martha T. Nesbitt Building. <br /> <br /> "These civil rights cold cases are unresolved crimes of injustice and tragedy, where real people were murdered, and families and communities were impacted," said Dr. Ray-Lynn Snowden, associate professor of communication, media studies and journalism. "Klibanoff now teaches investigative skills through multimedia journalism to students at Emory University using these cases, and student journalists can be part of the investigative process and solution to these unsolved crimes from the modern past."<br /> <br /> Following his presentation, Klibanoff will meet in an informal interactive class session with UNG journalism news production classes. Snowden said UNG students will learn crimes of the past are never dead with multimedia reporting skills, and why Georgia's civil rights cold cases matter. <br /> <br /> In addition to Klibanoff's appearance Wednesday, there will be a Black History Month celebration on the Gainesville Campus, held in the Student Center Commons on Feb. 25 from noon until 1:00.