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Clint C. Wilson II, Ed.D., is Professor of Journalism in the Howard University School of Communications and raduate Professor in its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Wilson is widely regarded as being among the nation's foremost scholars of the Black press and his book “A History of the Black Press,” which completed the unfinished work of the late distinguished African American journalism historian Dr. Armistead S. Pride, was cited as one of the 35 "most significant books of the 20th century” by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

He is a recipient of the prestigious Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri, which houses the world's oldest journalism school. He has lectured at academic symposia at several colleges and universities in the United States and abroad at Oxford University.

He has authored or co-authored five other books including "Racism, Sexism and the Media: The Rise of Class Communication in Multicultural America.” The Society of Professional Journalists honored the book with its 2003 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism Research. In 1996 the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights honored the second edition of that work as the "Outstanding Book” on the subject of human rights in North America.

Dr. Wilson's professional journalism career includes work for various news media organizations including the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, USA Today.com and the Los Angeles Sentinel. Wilson's scholarly work on the relationship between people of color and mainstream general circulation media has been published in such periodicals as Journalism Educator, Columbia Journalism Review, Quill and Change. His work has been cited in textbooks and trade journals including Editor and Publisher and Advertising Age, among others.