Where Are All the Black Men in Public Relations?
9th Annual Celebrating Black PR History event
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 6pm ET
This is a HYBRID event, taped before a live audience, followed by a networking reception. It is also accessible via Zoom.
You must be registered to attend.
REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND LIVE | Admission to attend the live event: $25; Student: $10
REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM | Attend via Zoom: Free
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Ninety years ago, the first African American man opened a public relations agency in the extraordinarily competitive New York market. Despite dealing with the Depression—and despite his race—Joseph Varney Baker thrived for decades by representing national corporations reaching out to the burgeoning Black middle class in the North. While several Black men over the decades followed successfully in Baker's footsteps, primarily as entrepreneurs, Black men today are all but absent inside today's agencies and corporate communications departments, and Black entrepreneurs are few and far between.
This intergenerational panel will discuss the real life issues affecting Black men today, with a focus on developing strategies to attract more Black men into the industry, especially when the number of men of all ethnicities is nearing record lows.