Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of The Spark program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program, Smart Talk.
In addition to his on-air duties, LaMar has moderated political candidate debates, including those for candidates running for Pennsylvania governor and the U.S. Senate and was a regular contributor to BBC World News TV before and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
LaMar often emcees or moderates local events and has gone as far as California to emcee a national event.
The American Society of Civil Engineers honored LaMar with their national Excellence in Journalism award in 2020. He has been nominated for five Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
LaMar and The Spark have been recognized throughout the Central Pennsylvania community including ADVOZ Lancaster’s “Dignity in Dialogue Award”, the South-Central Assembly’s “Regional Citizen Award” and was named a “Humanitarian Hero” by The Humane Society of the United States/Pennsylvania.
A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.
In his new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner writes about the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and significant impact they had on the United States — even to this day.
The three amendments ended slavery, provided equal protection under the law to all American citizens (and identified citizens) and gave the right to vote to all Americans (except women), regardless of race.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner appears at the Midtown Scholar Book Store on October 4, 2019.
Foner explores the many issues the Congress and the nation had to deal with as the newly freed slaves and free blacks were integrated into American society. Along the way, he writes about monumental racial discrimination in both the south and north, that included violence against African-Americans and how courts interpreted the amendments that set the stage for Jim Crow laws in the south.
Eric Foner appears on Friday’s Smart Talk.
Smart Talk takes a Road Trip for Friday’s program featuring Foner to the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Midtown Harrisburg in the midst of the Harrisburg Book Festival. Several best-selling and well-known authors are appearing through Sunday.
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Host Scott LaMar (left) and author Eric Foner (right) appear at the Smart Talk road trip to the Midtown Science Book Store, October 4, 2019.