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Trayvon Martin: “Five years ago, a black boy was shot for nothing.”
On the fifth anniversary, Leonard Pitts reflects on the shooting of Trayvon Martin: “Many Americans made him a blank screen upon which they projected their racialized stereotypes and fears. They could not allow him to be a harmless child walking home.
Read MoreReminded of Racism
Saddened by continued expressions of racism, West Windsor & Plainsboro News reporter Euna Kwon Brossman reprints a column she wrote in 1992 just after the reactions to the beating of Rodney King.
Read MoreBlack girls fight media images
Lewis Duiguid cites a recent study [Muhammad, G. E. & McArthur, S. A. (2015). “Styled by their perceptions”: Adolescent girls’ interpretations of Black girlhood in the media. Multicultural Perspectives, 17(3), 1-8.] that “shows how stereotypical media images affect black girls’ sense of themselves…
Read MoreThe New York Times has created a newsroom-wide team for covering race.
“Rather than covering race all at once or assigning a single reporter to the topic, The New York Times has created a team of journalists in different departments throughout the newsroom who conceive and develop stories related to the subject,”…
Read MoreThe Faces of American Power
The New York Times provides an illustration of pictures being worth thousands of words.
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