Editing Chuck Stone (section)

===Journalist and educator===
Chuck Stone's career in journalism began in 1958, when his friend Al Duckett, then editor of ''[[The New York Age]]'', hired him as a reporter, and then promoted him to editor. Stone also wrote articles for the ''[[Pittsburgh Courier]]'' and the Washington D.C. edition of the ''[[Baltimore Afro-American|Afro-American]]'' before being hired as editor-in-chief of ''[[The Chicago Defender]]'' in August 1963.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ethan |last=Michaeli|title=The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=2016|page= 377}}</ref>

Years later, Stone worked as a columnist for The ''[[Philadelphia Daily News]]'' from 1972 to 1991. Stone was very critical of the [[Philadelphia Police Department]]'s record of brutality towards African-Americans, which made him a trusted [[Intermediary|middleman]] between Philadelphia police and criminal suspects, more than 75 of whom 'surrendered' to Stone rather than to the cops.<ref name=tom/><ref name=surrender>{{cite web|last=Abe|first=Daudi|url= http://www.blackpast.org/aah/stone-charles-sumner-jr-chuck-1924-2014 |title=Stone, Charles Sumner, Jr. 'Chuck' (1924–2014)|website=[[BlackPast.org]]|date=May 9, 2014 |access-date= September 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name=memory>{{cite web|url=http://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2014/apr/InMemoriam041114.html|title=In memoriam: UD colleagues remember Chuck Stone|website=www1.udel.edu|date=April 11, 2014|access-date= October 23, 2014}}</ref> 

In 1975, he was the [[Matthew Lyle Spencer|M. Lyle Spencer]] Visiting Professor of Journalism in the [[S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]] at [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Alphas on the move |journal=The Sphinx |date=February 1975 |volume=61 |issue=1 |page=29 |url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/197506101/31 |access-date=28 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He taught journalism at the [[University of Delaware]] for seven years,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/98/24/chuck.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805224726/http://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/98/24/chuck.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-05 |title=Chuck Stone to speak April 3 on hate speech|work=University of Delaware UpDate|volume=17|number=24|date=March 19, 1998|access-date= May 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name=memory/> and from 1986 to 1988 he served as the House Advisor for the [[Martin Luther King]] Humanities House at the [[University of Delaware]]. Stone later became the Walter Spearman Professor at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], where he retired in 2005.

Stone was nominated twice for the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and was inducted into the [[National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame]] in August 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/chuck-stone-41 |title=EducationMakers, MediaMakers: Chuck Stone|work=[[HistoryMakers]]|date=August 4, 2005|access-date= May 4, 2017}}</ref> On March 29, 2007, Stone attended a ceremony in the [[United States Capitol rotunda]], where he and the other veteran Tuskegee Airmen (or their widows) were awarded the [[Congressional Gold Medal]] by President [[George W. Bush]] in recognition of the Airmen's service during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Douglas|first= William|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2007/03/30/WWII-black-pilots-Tuskegee-Airmen-get-top-civilian-honor/stories/200703300127|title=WWII black pilots, Tuskegee Airmen, get top civilian honor|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=March 30, 2007|access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref>

Stone was known for his passionate and bold personality. The New York Times refers to him as the "Fiery, Trusted Columnist"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=2014-04-07 |title=Chuck Stone, a Fiery, Trusted Columnist in Philadelphia, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/business/media/chuck-stone-89-fiery-columnist-dies.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> and journalist Dennis Jackson once did a segment on him titled, "The Outspoken Mr. Stone."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Dennis |date=1997 |title='The Outspoken Mr. Stone': A Conversation With Chuck Stone. |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.1997.11430840 |journal=The Black Scholar |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=38–57 |doi=10.1080/00064246.1997.11430840 |via=Taylor & Francis Online|url-access=subscription }}</ref>