Africa Calling: Africa Calling - The Journey: The Sounds & Heart of Worship

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JOHN W. FOUNTAIN

Fountain, a Fulbright Scholar, is a tenured full professor at Roosevelt University. He was winner in December 2021 of a 1st Place National Association of Black Journalists "Salute To Excellence Award" in newspaper column writing. He and his students' project, "Unforgotten 51," about the unsolved murders of mostly 51 African-American women in Chicago, also won a 1st place NABJ award. In November 2021, Fountain won second place Dorothy Storck Award from the Chicago Journalists Association for his column. In 2016, 2014 and 2011, he was awarded the Peter Lisagor Award for best news column or commentary at a daily newspaper with a circulation of more than 250,000. A former New York Times national correspondent, he has won numerous journalism awards over a career that has spanned more than three decades. He is author of five books and a former staff writer for the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, where he was once the newspaper's chief crime reporter.

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Africa Calling - The Journey: The Sounds & Heart of Worship