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Jamilah King

News Editor
New York, NY

Jamilah King is the news editor at Colorlines.com, coordinating story assignments as news breaks, as well as covering urban politics and youth culture. Before joining Colorlines she was associate editor at WireTap Magazine, an online political publication that was a project of The Nation Institute. Jamilah serves on peer review board of the Youth Media Reporter, previously worked as contributing editor with YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, and has covered the youth vote for Colorlines.com.

Jamilah is a former McNair scholar and Kopkind Fellow. She graduated with degrees in English and Black Studies from Pitzer College and also studied gender and development at the University of the West Indies along with labor history at City University of New York. Born and raised in San Francisco, Jamilah grew up in a single parent, working class household. She has written about her family's personal experience with violence, and is dedicated to using art to articulate new visions for the future. Jamilah participated in the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) where she organized passenger service workers in Oakland with the Center for Third World Organizing. She studied labor history at City University of New York and worked as an organizer with SEIU and low income workers in the Bronx. She has also volunteered in the HIV community, doing outreach with Bay Area Young Positives and the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, Gays, and All-Sexuals in Kingston.

Jamilah frequently appears on community radio and media conferences around the country, including National Conference on Media Reform and Allied Media Conference. Jamilah's writing has also appeared on New America Media, TheNation.com, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Alternet, and Racialicious. She's an avid basketball fan and a recovering music junkie.

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Jamilah tweets at @jamilahking.

The Fight for Accountability Continues for Trayvon Martin’s Family

by Jamilah King on February 26 2013, 10:21AM

Zimmerman will get his day(s) in court.

Topics: /NOW Blog

Obama’s Fatherhood Meme Ruffles Otherwise Ardent Supporters

by Jamilah King on February 20 2013, 10:43AM

Critics are asking why the president sees family structure as the gun problem in Chicago, but not in Newton.

Topics: Chicago, Criminal Justice, Guns

‘This American Life’ Takes Uncanny Look Into Chicago High School

by Jamilah King on February 18 2013, 2:00PM

This American Life reporters from spent months inside of one Chicago high school as the trauma of the city’s gun violence unfolded.

Topics: /NOW Blog

Obama Pushes for Slow, Steady Progress to Combat Chicago’s Gun Violence

by Jamilah King on February 15 2013, 4:55PM

The president made an important stop in Chicago today.

Topics: /NOW Blog

Obama’s Chicago Guns Speech and the Value of Black and Latino Lives

by Jamilah King on February 15 2013, 8:57AM

President Obama has answered Chicago’s call to come home and address the city’s epidemic of gun violence. But will he lay out a plan for substantive reform?

Topics: Schools & Youth

5 Must-Know Facts About Chicago’s Gun Violence

by Jamilah King on February 15 2013, 8:55AM

The city’s carnage disproportionately impacts black and Latino youth.

Topics: /NOW Blog

Obama Plans Chicago Speech to Address Gun Violence

by Jamilah King on February 11 2013, 10:51AM

The president is finally going home to address one of the country’s most pressing issues.

Topics: /NOW Blog

It’s Still Not Enough for Michelle Obama to Attend Hadiya Pendleton’s Funeral

by Jamilah King on February 8 2013, 11:46AM

The community wants more.

Topics: /NOW Blog

Storytelling Across the Fluid Cultural Borders of the Americas

by Jamilah King on February 8 2013, 10:05AM

Novelist Daniel Alarcón says his Spanish-language show, Radio Ambulante, aims to “quesiton how stories get told, and who tells them.”

Topics: Media

Dispatch from Chicago: Stop the Violence…But How?

by Jamilah King on February 7 2013, 8:42AM

As the city becomes the face of urban gun violence, those working directly with the youth being killed struggle for satisfying answers.

Topics: Chicago, Criminal Justice, Dispatches, Guns, Schools & Youth

5 Ways Our Changing Culture Will Show Up at the Super Bowl

by Jamilah King on January 31 2013, 9:00AM

This ain’t your grandfather’s big game.

Topics: Arts & Culture

Chicago Girl Who Performed at Obama Inauguration Events Killed in Shooting

by Jamilah King on January 30 2013, 2:11PM

The girl died when a gunman opened fire on her and other teenagers at a park in Chicago.

Topics: /NOW Blog

A Plan to Serve Homeless Youth in a State With the Largest Need

by Jamilah King on January 17 2013, 8:40AM

California accounts for 30 percent of the nation’s homelessness each year. A new effort is underway to address the youth in that group by not lumping them all together.

Topics: Schools & Youth

Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display

by Jamilah King on January 11 2013, 9:24AM

A series of anonymous billboards have popped up on bus shelters in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. They’re not selling anything but a delcaration: that racism still exists.

Topics: Arts & Culture

Yes, ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’ Looks Awful — But That’s Not the Whole Point

by Jamilah King on January 3 2013, 9:14AM

The problem isn’t just what’s on our TV, but who has the power to put it there in the first place.

Topics: /NOW Blog

After ‘Django’, Tarantino Eyes Thriller About Black WWII Soldiers

by Jamilah King on December 28 2012, 12:23PM

Trilogy? Maybe

Topics: /NOW Blog

For Our 2013 New Year’s Resolutions, the Personal Is Political

by Jamilah King on December 28 2012, 9:09AM

Wrestling with systemic problems means also making personal changes, big and small. Here’s a few of our own efforts for 2013.

Topics: 2013, Arts & Culture

Racist ‘Screaming Savage’ Image Makes Its Return to Baseball in Atlanta

by Jamilah King on December 27 2012, 2:46PM

Yikes.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog

Researchers Worry That the Census May Still Falter on Questions of Race

by Jamilah King on December 27 2012, 1:57PM

The Census Bureau is considering possible revisions for its 2020 survey, and the proposed changes have raised concerns among some communities of color who fear that they’ll be undercounted. Corey Dade reports at NPR about just what’s at stake: “Race…

Topics: /NOW Blog

The World Didn’t End, So Did All the Attention Help or Hurt The Maya?

by Jamilah King on December 27 2012, 1:41PM

The truth is a lot less sensational than you might imagine.

Topics: /NOW Blog

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