About: Antoine Craigwell
Website: http://www.dbgm.info
Profile: Antoine Craigwell is a journalist/writer for Out In Jersey magazine. He has written for several newspapers and magazines, including FORTUNE Small Business magazine. In 2008, he earned two awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) for his investigative reporting. Antoine obtained a double degree in journalism and psychology from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and he is a member of NYABJ, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Deadline Club (the Society’s New York chapter), and the Baruch College Alumni Association. He was a volunteer tutor with Harlem Live – teaching journalism to high school seniors, and was the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Queens Pride House. Antoine’s public speaking included as a guest speaker on “Recapturing the Male Image” for the 3rd Annual Men’s Conference, and the Barbershop Series of the Black Male Initiative, both held at York College, CUNY. He was also a panelist on GritTV with Laura Flanders in Jul 2009, discussing anti-gay violence in the Sacha Barron Cohen film, “Bruno”. He has presented at workshops for the Annual NYC High School Journalism Conference at Baruch College, CUNY and participated in panel discussions discussing the state of the Black gay community in New York, and the media and the Black gay community. Antoine is in the process of completing work on a book and a documentary “You Are Not Alone” about depression in Black gay men.
Posts by Antoine Craigwell:
There are at least two apparently disparate motives for Ugandan LGBT advocacy officer and activist David Kato’s death, but which, are revealed to be tied to one: the virulent religiously influenced homophobia manifested in the Rolling Stone publication and the High Court ruling against the newspapers for publishing 100 photos of suspected “homos,” and acted out by the claims of a pay for sex incident gone wrong from a known criminal.
February 16, 2011 | Posted in
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