Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, and documentary filmmaker who is known as the #blackmommyactivist. She is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, a Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, and the host of Today With Kaye on WEAA.[1][2] Whitehead is also an Opinion Editorial columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American.[3]
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Biography
editWhitehead received her B.A. from Lincoln University; her M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame; her graduate degree in Advanced Documentary and Narrative Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy;[4] and her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[5][6] She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Whitehead was a middle school teacher in Baltimore City. She was also a documentary filmmaker with Metro TV, a PBS-affiliate and a senior producer for Music Television Networks (MTV). In 2001, she directed and produced The Twin Towers: A History which was nominated for a New York Emmy Award,[7] her third nomination.
Whitehead had served as the National Secretary for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH),[8] the National Secretary and as the National President (2020-2023) for the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).[9]
Awards
editIn 2020, Whitehead was selected by the Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women;[10] by the Baltimore Sun as the Best Radio Host.[11] In 2019, Whitehead received the Collegium Visionary Award from the college of Holy Cross;[12] the Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) from the National Women's Political Caucus for her work editing and compiling #BlackGirlActivism: Exploring the Ways We Come Though the Storm,[13] a special issue of the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal (Duke University Press); the Baltimore Sun named her as one of Baltimore's 25 "Women to Watch in 2019"; and, Essence magazine included her on the 2019 "Woke 100 List," of "black women advocating for change."[14][15]
In 2021, Whitehead was named a "Leader in Diversity" by Baltimore Business Journal.[16] In 2016, Whitehead received the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies' "Distinguished Alumni" Award from the University of Notre Dame.[17][18] In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Progressive National Baptist Convention. In 2013, she received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship from Loyola University Maryland.[19]
In 2021, Kaye received the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award in the inaugural category, Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Region 12); 2021 Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary; and, was selected by the Baltimore Business Journal to receive the Leaders in Diversity Award.[20] She also received The Amistad Award for her contributions to human rights and social justice from the Amistad Committee.
Writing
editWhitehead is a curriculum writer who created and compiled the crowd-sourced Trump Syllabus K12 curriculum: Lesson Plans for Teaching During this New Age of Resistance.[21]
Whitehead is the author of four books including Letters for My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America[22] and Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis[23] which was reviewed in Journal of American History.[24] A documentary film The Women of Philadelphia was made about the book [25] and it received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians[26] and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.
References
edit- ^ "Kaye Whitehead - Faculty - Loyola University Maryland". www.loyola.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "Today With Dr. Kaye". WEAA. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ "karsonya wise whitehead | Search Results | Afro". Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ New York Film Academy
- ^ Pasquine, About the Author: Frank (2014-05-28). "NYFA Grad Releases New Book: 'Notes From a Colored Girl'". New York Film Academy Blog. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ Oei, Lily (2003-02-18). "WNBC tops N.Y. Emmy noms". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ "ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | Leadership". 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "NWSA". www.nwsa.org. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "The Daily Record honors Loyola faculty member as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women - Newsroom - Loyola University Maryland". www.loyola.edu. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ "Winners of The Baltimore Sun's Best 2020 Readers' Choice Contest To Be Announced in May". baltimoresun.com. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ "Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead". Collegium. 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "EMMAS 2019". National Women's Political Caucus. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ staff, Baltimore Sun (30 September 2019). "The Baltimore Sun's 25 Women to Watch in 2019". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "The 2019 Woke 100". Essence. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "Announcing the winners of the BBJ's 2021 Leaders in Diversity Awards". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "Karsonya (Kaye) - Whitehead - 1993 // Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies // University of Notre Dame". Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation featuring Karsonya Wise Whitehead. krocinstitute. 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2021-10-02 – via YouTube.
- ^ "2006 State Winners | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". www.gilderlehrman.org. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ "Baltimore Business Journal honors Loyola faculty member with Leaders in Diversity Award". www.loyola.edu. 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ Valenzuela, Angela (2016-12-15). "Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: Trump Syllabus K12: Lesson Plans for Teaching During the New Age of Resistance (#TrumpSyllabusK12)". Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ "Karsonya Wise Whitehead: Letters to My Black Sons | The Ivy Bookshop". www.theivybookshop.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "Notes from a Colored Girl". www.sc.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ Ball, E. L. (2015-06-01). "Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis". Journal of American History. 102 (1): 251–252. doi:10.1093/jahist/jav182. ISSN 0021-8723.
- ^ "Notes From a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilee Frances Davis". catto.ushistory.org. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
- ^ "Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners | OAH". www.oah.org. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
External links
edit- Keynote, ASALH 90th Annual Black History Month Lunch, https://www.c-span.org/video/?405063-1/90th-annual-black-history-luncheon