Keep a close eye on Verso's events page in the coming weeks: during March, April and May, Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres, co-authors of News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the Media, will be going across the country for a series of lectures and discussions about the history of race and media in the United States.

Please click below to see a list of their respective speaking dates and stay posted for more information and details to come:

Juan Gonzalez

March 14 - Reception and Book Signing hosted by 1199 SEIU Union at the Martin Luther King Center, 6:00 PM

March 21 - Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

April 1 - Austin, TX Community Event (details to come)

April 2 - University of Texas, Austin: School of Journalism, Austin TX

April 20 - New York Media Alliance, Troy, NY

April 25 - CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

May 2 - "Coming Together or Coming Apart?: The Dilemma of Latinos in the USA" Conference: SUNY Westbury. Westbury, NY

May 4 - Regional Conference of National Association of Hispanic Journalists

June 9th - "How Class Works" Conference at SUNY Stonybrook

Joseph Torres

February 29 - "History of American Media in Racial Discrimination" as part of Black History Month, Rockville Memorial Library, Montgomery, MD at 7:00 PM

March 15/16 - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

March 17 - "Dia de la Mujer Conference" at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

April 2 - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

April 3 - Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Minneapolis, MN

April 4 - Highlander Center, Clark Atlanta University Journalism School, Atlanta GA

April 13-15 - National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Los Angeles, CA
Week of April 16 - Journalism Department University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

April 25 - Clinton Library, Little Rock, AK