(Featured speakers for Feb. 15 program are, from left: Sharon Stevens and Linda Lockhart)
By Ruth E. Thaler-Carter
As initiatives in civil rights and diversity, equity and inclusion come under attack, members of the press continue to work to defend these essential perspectives.
Linda Lockhart and Sharon Stevens, well-known journalists and leaders of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and its St. Louis chapter, will join Missouri Professional Communicators (MPC) at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, for an enlightening conversation about the history and importance of NABJ-STL, established almost 50 years ago, and the continuing need for such organizations to protect the careers of diverse journalists and the communities overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.
The free program will be held during Black History Month both in person at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild (12 N. Jackson, Clayton) and online. Please make reservations, noting personal attendance or requesting an online link by email, at mpcnfpw@gmail.com or the MPC website www.moprocommunicators.org, by Feb. 13.
Their NABJ-STL Living Legend status recognizes exemplary journalism careers and service to colleagues and the community, including continuing leadership roles in the St. Louis chapter.
Lockhart is a St. Louis native and graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. Her multiple roles at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were followed on the St. Louis Beacon as an analyst for Public Insight Network, a product of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media to help connect journalists with news sources, and was interim editor at the St. Louis American and copy editor at newspapers in Milwaukee and Minneapolis-St. Paul. She was a co-founder of NABJ-STL and has served as NABJ secretary.
Stevens, originally from Chicago and a graduate of Northern Illinois University, sparked her journalism career by writing for her elementary school newspaper. Her television career began at WGBH-TV in Boston before she became an education reporter for KSDK-TV and KTVI-TV in St. Louis.
The individual awards that followed the two sterling journalists include recognition from the St. Louis Media History Foundation.
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