Scholarship started in honor of former columnist Eugene Kane
Like in other professions, there’s a tradition in journalism where the old guard offers a hand up to the new generation, and Eugene Kane is still offering that help.
Kane, the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter and columnist who died in April, will have a scholarship named in his honor at his alma mater Temple University.
The Eugene Albert Kane Jr. Honorary
Scholarship Fund was started by Kane’s sister, Edna Kane Williams, and plans to provide financial assistance to graduates of public high schools in the Philadelphia School District who follow in the footsteps of her brother and enroll at the Klein College of Media and Communication.
Individuals can donate directly to the scholarship.
Kane grew up in north Philadelphia and attended Temple University, where he majored in journalism and minored in Black studies. As a senior, he wrote stories on a freelance basis for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, according to Temple. In September 1984, Kane joined the staff of the then-Milwaukee Journal.
In 2012, Kane left the Journal Sentinel after a 28-year-career.
His regular column, “Raising Kane,” won numerous journalism awards. He was a two-time National Headliner Award winner for Best Local Column; a
National Association of Black Journalists award winner for Best Commentary; and a Sigma Delta Chi Award winner from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best General Column.
In 2014, Kane was inducted into the Wisconsin Media Hall of Fame and the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame.
In February 2017, Kane was honored along with WTMJ-TV Channel 4’s Carole Meekins by the Wisconsin Black Media Association in an event entitled “Honoring Our Own” at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society.