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Women's History Month - LIVE Interview with Betty DeRamus

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Women's History Month Lecture Series: "The Voice of Influence ~ A Woman"

LIVE interview with BETTY DERAMUS.
Betty DeRamus is an author, world traveler and former journalist.
While an editorial writer at the Detroit Free Press, she accompanied and wrote about an official city of Detroit trade mission to Nigeria and Liberia in 1979. for outstanding human interest reporting; in 1981, she journeyed to Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo Brazzaville and Senegal for workshops and lectures sponsored by the American Forum for International Study. 1984, she toured Central African refugee camps on a media tour sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1985, she won The Sigma Delta Chi Foundation’s Eugene Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers. The fellowship funded educational trips in 1986 to Cuba, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Amsterdam, Finland and the old Soviet Union.
In 1987, she became a columnist for The Detroit News. While there she covered Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his inauguration in 1994. She received Best of Gannett award and an award for international reporting from the National Association for Black Journalists. In 1993, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of Detroit News columns about the Los Angeles riots.
She also has written two non-fiction books about the Underground Railroad, both published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

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