Callie Crossley Biography
Callie Crossley is an American broadcast journalist and radio presenter in the Boston area. In March 2013 she began hosting a new radio program entitled Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio’s Boston Public Radio, where various commentators talk with guests about local and national politics, public affairs, arts and culture.
A former producer for ABC News 20/20, Ms. Crossley is a also a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media literacy, media and politics and the intersection of race, gender and media.
Callie Crossley Age
Callie Crossley was born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States in 1951. He is currently 68 years old as of 2019.
Callie Crossley Height|Weight
she has an average height with matching body weight. Callie’s exact measurements have not been disclosed but will be updated soon.
Callie Crossley Education
She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and holds two honorary degrees, a Doctor of Arts degree from Pine Manor College and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cambridge College.
Callie Crossley Husband
Crossley prefer keeping his personal life behind the curtains. Callie’s past and recent relationship is unknown.
Callie Crossley Career
She appears on WGBH-TV’s Beat the Press, examining local and national media coverage, and hosts Basic Black, which focuses on current events concerning communities of color. A frequent commentator on television and radio, she is regularly quoted in the national media.
From December 2010 through June 2012, she was the host of The Callie Crossley Show, a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7. Past guests on The Callie Crossley Show include filmmaker Errol Morris, historian Howard Zinn, authors Junot Diaz, Frank Bruni, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, Isabel Wilkerson, David Remnick, lawyer/author Charles Ogletree, actors Rachel Dratch, Leonard Nimoy, Anna Deavere Smith, and Wayne Brady, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and many more.
Callie is a multiple awarding winner journalist and documentary filmmaker, including a National Emmy, the Gold Alfred I. Dupont Columbia Award, plus Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and Clarion Awards, and top honors for commentary from the Public Radio News Directors. She is the first African-American to win an OscarÒ nomination in the Documentary Feature category for her work as a Producer on Bridge to Freedom, her hour in the documentary series, “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965.” She also earned a National Emmy and the Alfred I Dupont Columbia Award for this work.
Callie won the 2016 Best Commentary award from the Public Radio News Directors organization for “Tomorrow Is Not Promised: Life After Hurricane Katrina.”Crossley won a 2017 Award from National Association of Black Journalists for Hosting in the Television Public Affairs: Interview Discussion for the program “Basic Black: Celebrating a Prince, a Queen and a General”
Callie was honored with the 2017 Open Door Award from Old South Church whose previous winners include former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Reverend Frank Schaefer, and Sarah Ann Shaw. Callie is the recipient of the 2017 Barbara Stone Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership from the Women’s Institute at Chatham University.
Callie Crossley Basic Black
Produced live at WGBH Studios in Boston, Basic Black is the longest running program on public television focusing on the interests of people of color. The show, which was originally called Say Brother, was created in 1968 during the height of the civil rights movement as a response to the demand for public television programs reflecting the concerns of communities of color. Each episode features a panel discussion across geographic borders and generational lines with the most current stories, interviews and commentaries.
Callie Crossley Commencements End
Most of the pomp and circumstance processionals are over now. The last notes of the traditional march have faded from the air, the speeches made, the dorms emptied, to be readied for the advent of the September first years. The college class of 2019 has commenced launched into the real world of work if they are lucky, but likely unable to escape a reckoning with the debt which financed their education.
the total college debt crept up to $1.5 trillion this year. It’s massive, second only to mortgage debt and bigger than both credit card and auto loans. Forty-four million borrowers were already on the hook for that debt repayment, and the new graduates just joined this financially challenged group. Everybody, that is, except the graduates of Morehouse College, whose commencement speaker, billionaire Robert Smith, pledged to wipe out all of the 2019 class’ debt. The 396 graduates of the historically black all men’s college were shocked into silence at first, before erupting into joyous screams and cheers.
Smith’s surprise and substantial generosity easily $40 million by some estimates comes amid a public existential question about whether the price of higher education is worth it, and the public exposure of the sleazy details of super wealthy people willing to buy college admission for their kids. And don’t forget there’s been a 40 percent increase of seniors older folk, not fourth-year students who still owe, even though they graduated decades ago. Worse, default rates are at an all-time high as borrowers sink under the weight of the loans plus interest rates.
If Congress acts soon, graduates could speed up repayment under the Employer Participation Repayment Act, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Republican Sen. John Thune, concerned that graduates “trade their cap and gown for debt and uncertainty,” and by Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, who “relied on student loans” as the first in his family to go to college. Companies already get a tax break when they contribute to tuition aid, $5,250 a year. This bill would expand the tax incentive to employers like Massachusetts-based New Balance. In a statement, the company said it was ready to contribute to graduate/employees’ debt repayment “All we are waiting for is federal legislation.”
The bill enjoys broad support from House members and at least two dozen senators, as well as the president’s daughter and advisor, Ivanka Trump. But to pass, it would have to be folded into a larger Senate tax bill, and many predict it won’t survive the politics of all those other issues.
But if the bill passes, it will offer some relief to debt-saddled employees, even as state lawmakers some of them with heavy debt burdens of their own push for protections for the 855,000 local student borrowers. Beyond that, students will have to see if tuition-free college, like the proposal from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, becomes reality. Or hope that Robert Smith is feeling generous next year.
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