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FGCU Hosting Lecture on Black Victims of the Holocaust

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French prisoners of war in Nazi Germany

New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist Edwin Black is returning to Southwest Florida to give two lectures at Florida Gulf Coast University.

The first will focus on "Black Victims of Nazi Policy: From Africa to Berlin to North Carolina," and the second will be on "Eugenics and the Ethics of Scientific Racism."

Black joins Gulf Coast Live, once again, to give a preview of his talks, which are being held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5 and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7 respectively in the Cohen Center ballroom on FGCU's campus.
 
The lectures will be hosted by FGCU's Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance, Office of Multicultural and Leadership Development, Office of Community Outreach and Department of Biological Sciences as well the Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida, StandWithUs, Israeli-American Council and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
 
Both lectures are open to the public.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.