Ricky Jones
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| @Morehouse Man | Author of “Black Haze” & “What’s Wrong with Obamamania?” | Professor | Columnist
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Ricky Jones’s Biography
Read Full Bio →DR. RICKY L. JONES is the Baldwin•King Scholar-in-Residence at the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. The Atlanta, Georgia native was educated as an undergraduate at the U.S. Naval Academy and Morehouse College (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s alma mater)). He was only the second African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky where he specialized in Political Philosophy and Comparati…
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See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Writer for Louisville Eccentric Observer
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes - a LONG time ago!
How is social media changing news?
Moves things faster and makes everyone a potential reporter, etc. That is good AND bad.