PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ACEL MOORE TO HEADLINE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY CEREMONIES AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

Pulitzer Prize winner Acel Moore, the longtime Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, editor and columnist who co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists, will deliver the keynote speech at the annual Martin Luther King Day program hosted by the Main Line Martin Luther King Association in conjunction with Bryn Mawr College. The program, to be followed by a reception, will be held in Goodhart Theater at the College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15. Admission is free and open to the public.

Moore, who is now an associate editor emeritus at the Inquirer, began working for the paper as a "copy boy" in 1962. He rose through the paper's ranks to become a nationally recognized journalist, serving as a columnist, editor and member of the editorial board. Colleagues praise him for his lifelong dedication to exposing and counteracting racial bias in the mainstream media, including his own newsroom. As a teacher and mentor, he has been at the forefront of efforts to bring more diverse perspectives into news reporting.

In 1977, Moore won a Pulitzer Prize — as well as the Heywood Broun, National Headliner and Robert F. Kennedy awards — for his series of articles on abuse of inmates at Fairview State Hospital in Fairview, Pa. He was the third African American to win a Pulitzer and the first to win the award for investigative journalism, and his reports led to significant reforms in state laws and regulations governing mental institutions. In 1979, he was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship and spent a year at Harvard. He has served on the faculties of the Summer Program for Minority Journalists at the University of California, Berkeley, Florida A&M University and Temple University, and he is a consultant to the Institute for Journalism Education.

Bryn Mawr College President Nancy J. Vickers will offer a welcome on behalf of the College, and NBC 10 News Reporter Kristen Welker will emcee the day's events. The Sweet Fellowship Inspirational Choir and Main Line Youth Workshop Choir will provide music. Winners of the Association's 2005-06 academic collegiate scholarships will also be recognized, and a free-will offering, to be used for the Association's scholarship fund, will be collected. Each year the Association recognizes extraordinary efforts to "make Dr. King's dream a reality on the Main Line "; this year's honorees will be Louella Luchie and Main Line Unitarian Church Racial Justice Task Force.

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