SUNY Oneonta Professor Gretchen Sorin Nominated for NAACP Award

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Distinguished SUNY Oneonta Professor Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is a finalist for a 2021 NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction according to a press release. Dr. Sorin collaborated with Emmy-winning director Ric Burns to bring her book “Driving While Black” to life in the form of a two-hour PBS documentary.

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Dr. Sorin is a distinguished professor and director of SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. The 52nd NAACP Image Awards ceremony will air live on BET on the 27th at 8 p.m.

Dr. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin (Credit: SUNY Oneonta)

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