Following this year's KY Journalism Hall of Fame Induction, the Joe Creason Lecture in Journalism, given by 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Al Cross, a UK journalism professor who was a longtime Courier Journal reporter and columnist and founding director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. For more information, contact the UK School of Journalism and Media at 859-257-3904 or email at jam@uky.edu. 

Seven will be inducted into the 2024 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. This year’s Hall of Fame ceremony, on April 9, will also feature the Joe Creason Lecture in Journalism, given by 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Al Cross, a UK journalism professor who was a longtime Courier Journal reporter and columnist and founding director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. 

Seating is limited. Members of the press and public may RSVP by Friday, March 29 by calling 859-257-4848 or by email at erika.engstrom@uky.edu.

Luckerson is a journalist and public speaker whose work focuses on bringing neglected Black history to light. Prior to moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2019, he worked as a staff writer at The Ringer and business reporter for Time magazine. Combining his journalistic background and passion for illuminating Black stories, Luckerson wrote his debut nonfiction book, “Built from the Fire,” published by Random House in 2023. The book chronicles the history of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, often referred to as America's "Black Wall Street," which was burned to the ground in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

An expert fluent in 118 years of Greenwood history, Luckerson will discuss the role that journalism and the press played in the Tulsa Race Massacre and in solidifying the impact and legacy that the Massacre continues to have on the area, its residents and Black history more than a century later.

Hosted by the UK College of Communication and Information, this lecture will serve as the keynote speech for the 2024 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium, set for March 7 to 9 on the UK campus. Doors open at 5 p.m., and refreshments will be provided.