Media

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Tiarra Mukherjee Apr 26, 2019 5:35PM EDT

MSNBC Special Tackles Race and Politics as Election Season Heats Up

Hosted by Reverend Al Sharpton, “Not Just Black and White: Race and the 2020 Election” will feature an interview with Stacey Abrams and 13 of the people running for president.

Tiarra Mukherjee Apr 25, 2019 1:43PM EDT

READ: Former CBS Exec Calls Out Racism at Media Giant

Former head of diversity Whitney Davis writes that the company is “fraught with systemic racism, discrimination and sexual harassment.”

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Shani Saxon Apr 4, 2019 3:38PM EDT

The Marshall Project Launches Print Publication for People Living Behind Bars

News Inside is distributed at prisons and jails.

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Sameer Rao Feb 7, 2019 1:11PM EST

Ava DuVernay Guest-Edits TIME's Optimism Issue

“The national headlines were what we’ve come to expect: bigotry, poverty, injustice, trauma, trouble. I weighed my own feelings of despair and doubt against the idea of reveling in an experience dedicated to optimism. The choice was easy.”

Portraits of Latinx, Asian and White women and men in front of grey and blue backgrounds set in front of red and white and blue graphic background and underneath black bars with white text spelling "2020 CAMPAIGN REPORTERS" and "2020 ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS"

Sameer Rao Jan 14, 2019 1:15PM EST

CBS News Called Out for Lack of Black Folks on Election Team

“Naw. This ain’t it. Try again.”

Phoebe Robinson, Michelle Obama and Jessica Williams. Black women in blue and orange outfits sit facing Black woman in red shirt around black and brown table with black and red and white microphones in front of brown wall and shade

Sameer Rao Nov 15, 2018 1:38PM EST

Listen to the Last Episode of '2 Dope Queens' Featuring Michelle Obama

Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams concluded their acclaimed WNYC Studios podcast by chatting with the former first lady about navigating the political sphere as a Black woman.

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Carmen Scurato, Jessica J. González Oct 25, 2018 3:39PM EDT

The Best Way to Protect Free Speech Online? De-Platform Hate. [OP-ED]

Internet companies must stop ignoring the racism and other forms of hate that are prevalent on their platforms and acknowledge that the hateful discourse of the few silences the speech of the marginalized many.

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Sameer Rao Oct 19, 2018 3:57PM EDT

Tarana Burke Guest Edits Essence Magazine's #MeToo Issue

“It was my deepest honor to be able to partner with this legacy magazine to shine a light on the issues around sexual violence that are directly affecting Black women.”

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Alicia Bell, Collette Watson, Amy Kroin Oct 18, 2018 10:28AM EDT

It's Time for a Narrative Shift in Post-Disaster Journalism [OP-ED]

Examining news coverage following Hurricane Florence illustrates how post-disaster narratives can compound and perpetuate deep histories of racial and economic oppression.

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Sameer Rao Oct 9, 2018 5:10PM EDT

Harper's Bazaar Celebrates Patrisse Cullors, Other #WomenWhoDare

The magazine’s new conversation series highlights six people pushing for social justice through arts and media.

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Sameer Rao Sep 19, 2018 5:20PM EDT

KoreAm Journal Relaunches as Pan-Asian-American KORE Mag

Editor-in-Chief Serena Kim says the new magazine goes beyond its predecessor’s primarily Korean-American focus to cover members of other Asian-American diasporic communities.

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Ayana Byrd Sep 17, 2018 1:13PM EDT

Sexual Health Experts on Why 'Insecure' Needs to Practice Safer Sex

With STI rates dangerously high for Black people, do TV shows have a responsibility to wrap it up?

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Sameer Rao Sep 6, 2018 4:17PM EDT

Afropunk.com Editor-in-Chief Quits, Alleges Exploitation of Staff

Lou Constant-Desportes accused organization leadership of disregarding Afropunk’s ethos of Black love and empowerment.

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Sameer Rao Aug 16, 2018 5:09PM EDT

#TBT: Remembering Louis E. Lomax, America's First Black TV Newsman

Lomax broke the television news color barrier in 1958.

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Sameer Rao Jul 19, 2018 11:35AM EDT

Chance the Rapper Purchases Chicago-Focused News Website

In his new song “I Might Need Security,” the rapper confirms that he purchased Chicagoist “just to run you racist bitches out of business.”

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Sameer Rao Jul 16, 2018 2:30PM EDT

Celebrating Ida B. Wells On Her Birthday

Today marks the trailblazing journalist and activist’s 156th birthday. Here’s why her work still resonates through media, activism and history—and what is being done to memorialize a life well lived.