SUNY Oneonta’s Gretchen Sorin Nominated for NAACP Award

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. 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 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.