#Black Journalism

[thesagittarianmind]

[blackstar1887]

The Fearless Trailblazer: Ida B. Wells' Legacy of Justice and Equality

[charliejaneanders]

His story highlights the ways in which white-led newsrooms are failing. And how the racial reckoning in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd was just another way newsrooms tried to save face.

What Happened to Journalism’s Racial Reckoning?

[theartofsupafly]

[lucythornwalter]

Indiana Fact #1:

The Indianapolis Freeman (or more simply The Freeman) was the first illustrated Black-owned newspaper in the United States, publishing from 1884 to 1926. It employed a full staff of Black artists and illustrators and had a circulation of 25,000 copies. It closed due to the inflation caused by World War I and due to competition from another Black-owned newspaper, the Indianapolis Recorder.

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[triflingthing]

A journaling session followed by a little surprise from the angel beside us

[pinkgirlgems]

cute coquette like journals ♡

[i-am-aprl]

Israel is targeting journalists

[zegalba]

Amelia Gray for Document Journal (2023) Photography: Alasdair McLellan

[ladyhawke]

BLACK SAILS + all the times the word “monster” was used

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online.

"Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society," Sam Forster, who is white, posted Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter. "Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I've ever done as a journalist."

The reaction was swift and brutal, with X users expressing anger, amusement and confusion, and telling Forster he should have simply spoken to Black people to understand their experiences.

"It's hard to simultaneously draw the ire of black people, white people, conservatives, AND liberals… But I think you've just done it," rapper and podcaster Zuby replied on X.

Several Black scholars who study race relations and write about the Black experience told CBC News that Forster's use of blackface is dehumanizing and troublesome, regardless of the context. Forster himself defended the book and the methods he used to write it in an interview with CBC News. [...]

Institutional racism (the anti-Black variety) is effectively dead," Forster concludes in the book. "Most of what's left of racism in this country are the few, socially narrow opportunities for soft interpersonal racism: shoulder racism." [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid

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[szynkaaa]

His travel companion asked him if it really was necessary to kill every single enemy they encounter, so he decided to push the yaoguai back into the ground

based on the One Piece scene with Luffy and a zombie

[lilbeanz]

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[blackbackedjackal]

idk why with coyotes specifically people see one that's a different color and assume it's a hybrid