Honoring civil rights cold case journalist Stanley Nelson

  • Stanley Nelson, at left, with the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis in 2011. Photo by Brad Lichtenstein.
    Stanley Nelson, at left, with the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis in 2011. Photo by Brad Lichtenstein.
    The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication will celebrate the life and work of Louisiana journalist Stanley Nelson at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, Oct. 22. The event, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., is open to the public.Nelson, the longtime editor of the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his investigations into unsolved Ku Klu...

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