![]() ![]() Tickets are $75 per person or $600 for per table (before April 3, 2016). For information, contact Tresa Beardslee at (517) 353-6430. ![]() Sunday, April 17 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on the campus of Michigan State University. DETROIT Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, and beloved icon of Detroit, said she plans to close out her career where it began, in her beloved hometown. The 2016 Hall of Fame Banquet will be held at 5 p.m. ![]() She was nominated for that award by Ron Dzwonkowski, then associate editor of the Free Press and Rochelle's editor, who was inducted him into the Hall of Fame himself in 2010. She won the National Headliner Award for best column in 2013 and the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award for community service from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2011. Her columns about former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick were part of the entry that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. She also won a national Scripps Howard Award for her columns on the challenges of adult illiteracy. Rochelle has earned multiple first-place writing honors from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Michigan Press Association and APME. Rochelle also makes frequent television and radio appearances, mostly on NPR, MSNBC and CNN. She has helped raise more than $1 million for Michigan literacy causes. Rochelle's award-winning columns appear in the Detroit Free Press and at She writes passionately about government responsibility, education, popular culture, politics and race and has spent 15 years raising awareness about the need to improve adult literacy. She played the role so well that eventually the Detroit Free Press came calling after noticing her. She spent nearly a quarter century as a columnist when she left the Detroit Free Press in 2019 to become Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. She was a high school student in eastern North Carolina with a love of writing and an interest in people. The keynote speaker was Rochelle Riley, former education writer for the Detroit Free Press and currently the Cultural Arts. Rochelle Riley is an award-winning columnist for the Detroit Free Press and also hosts a radio program on 910AM Superstation. It has honored journalists since 1985 for extraordinary and clearly outstanding careers. Rochelle Riley ’81 still remembers holding the green Newswriting 101 book in her hand and knowing that she had found her path. The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame recognizes reporters, editors, publishers, owners, photographers, broadcasters, educators, and others who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. NABJ congratulates Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley on being inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame for 2016. Rochelle Riley spent nearly 20 years as a columnist at the Detroit Free Press, where she was a leading voice for children, education, competent government. As Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley wrote in a February 1 column calling for an end to Black History Month, I propose that, for the first time in American history, this country has reached a point where we can stop celebrating separately, stop learning separately, stop being American separately. ![]()
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