Facing Difference

Shirley Biagi is Professor of Journalism at California State University, Sacramento. She has been guest faculty at the American Press Institute, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She is author of more than 200 magazine articles and four books, including Interviews that Work and Media/Reader.

Marilyn Kern-Foxworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Texas A&M University. In Spring 1994, she was the Garth C. Reeves Endowed Chair at Florida A&M University, Department of Journalism, Media and Graphic Arts. In 1981, she received a Kizzy Award from the Black Women Hall of Fame Foundation and was cited as one of 12 outstanding African-American women in America. She is the author of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.