{"id":10110,"date":"2012-02-21T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T12:38:25","slug":"msnbc-contributor-award-winning-investigative-journalist-social-activist-political-commentator-to-speak-at-austin-peay-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/21\/msnbc-contributor-award-winning-investigative-journalist-social-activist-political-commentator-to-speak-at-austin-peay-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC contributor, award-winning investigative journalist, social activist, political commentator to speak at Austin Peay State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-87421\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/AP_logo-200x171.gif\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"120\" height=\"103\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; From his celebrated conversations with marquee world figures in politics, business and entertainment, his grassroots work to inspire the next generation of leaders, his BET specials and weekly commentaries on the nationally syndicated \u201cTom Joyner Morning Show,\u201d to his work as CEO of Jeff\u2019s Nation LLC, Jeff Johnson has established himself as an authentic voice for change and a trailblazing social entrepreneur.<!--more-->Johnson, a Washington, D.C.-based, award-winning investigative journalist, social activist and political commentator, will speak at Austin Peay State University at 6:00pm, Tuesday February 28th in Clement Auditorium. His topic will be \u201cWho will lead the next social movement?\u201d Following his talk, he will sign books and meet and greet attendees in the African American Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>The only U.S. reporter to receive an exclusive post-inauguration interview with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa\u2019s first elected female head of state and Liberia\u2019s first elected female president, Johnson is also one of two news correspondents to receive an exclusive interview with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who has not granted interviews with U.S. media outlets for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is one of 30 young leaders from Europe and North America selected by the British Council to be a part of its Transatlantic 2020 team. This collective has inaugurated a new international dialogue to reinvigorate traditional alliances and mend transatlantic rifts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108701\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jeff-Johnson.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108701\" class=\" wp-image-108701 \" title=\"Jeff Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jeff-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Johnson\" width=\"256\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2008, Johnson received the NABJ Salute to Excellence Award for BET\u2019s \u201cLife &amp; Death in Darfur, Jeff Johnson Reports\u201d series. He regularly contributes commentary and analysis about issues related to race, politics, popular culture and socio-economics for news broadcasts and publications, such as MSNBC\u2019s \u201cDayside and Hardball with Chris Matthews,\u201d CNN\u2019s \u201cHeadline News,\u201d CNN\u2019s \u201cInternational, Larry King Live,\u201d the FOX News Channel, Huffington Post, CNN.com, theRoot.com, EbonyJet.com, and Upscale magazine.<\/p>\n<p>As a MSNBC contributor and White House correspondent for The Grio, an African-American website owned by NBC, Johnson covers important issues facing the nation. He has spent the last decade merging the worlds of politics and popular culture, including formerly serving as senior advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, national director of the Youth &amp; College division of the NAACP and as vice president of the Russell Simmons Hip Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN).<\/p>\n<p>On September 15th, 2009, Jeff Johnson released his first book, \u201cEverything I\u2019m Not Made Me Everything I Am: Discovering Your Personal Best\u201d (SmileyBooks).<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Johnson\u2019s speaking event, call the APSU African American Cultural Center at 931.221.7120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; From his celebrated conversations with marquee world figures in politics, business and entertainment, his grassroots work to inspire the next generation of leaders, his BET specials and weekly commentaries on the nationally syndicated \u201cTom Joyner Morning Show,\u201d to his work as CEO of Jeff\u2019s Nation LLC, Jeff Johnson has established himself as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,6152,262,12589,825,12588,12867,2279,12866],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2D4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10112,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions\/10112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}