Join CCOA for dinner and conversation with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Professor Samuel Freedman.  Prof. Samuel is an award-winning author of seven books and a New York Times columnist.  In 2012, he received Columbia University's coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.  Freedman's class in book-writing has developed more than 65 authors, editors, and agents, professor.   His books include: Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013); Small Victories! : The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother'! s Life (2005); and Letters to a Young Journalist (2006)

Cost:      $15 with paid CCOA 2014 membership/$20 for no members and guests.

Note:  Dinner is limited to 15 people. Please respond by March 23, 2014.