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Frances Toni Draper, publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American?, a weekly newspaper owned and published by the same family since 1892, will present "The Future of the Black Press" on Friday, November 15, at 1:00 p.m. in Buckham Hall A223. Rev. Dr. Draper will be in Buffalo to witness the induction of her late mother, former Buffalo State associate professor of journalism Frances Murphy, into the Buffalo State Communication Department Hall of Fame. Professor Murphy taught at Buffalo State from 1975 to 1985 before returning to Baltimore to become publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American.? She died in 2007. The Hall of Fame ceremony will be held during the Communication Department's induction of students into the Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the college's LoRusso Alumni and Visitor Center.