New Media Producer / Community Manager
Oakland, CA
Channing Kennedy is the new media producer for Colorlines.com, tending the site's community and social media presence while managing larger social media campaigns. He's responsible for most of Colorlines' original video content, working with reporters, researchers, advocates, and community members to tell the human stories behind the news — from net neutrality, to the Asian model minority myth, to Detroit's foreclosure crisis, to racial profiling by police. Channing is also an enabled media-analysis junkie; he's written for Colorlines on the agendas of right-wing pundits and the politics of anti-racist internet jokes.
In 2010, he co-wrote and edited the half-hour TV special "Colorlines: Race and Economic Recovery," which met with viewer acclaim and which still airs on stations across the country. Channing came to Colorlines from the world of no-budget guerilla art — making videos, running a record label, and performing in touring bands, while using existing technologies to criticize art's role in society and to explore new methods of artist-audience interaction.
Channing served in Americorps*NCCC in 2000, where he and his team worked hands-on with housing, education, and environmental projects. He trains nonprofits on how to use social media and video in strategically goal-oriented campaigns, and has written at length on the need for a proactive approach to cultural privilege in the internet's still-forming status quo. He enjoys exploring the intersection of nerd culture and social issues, in comics, video games, and comedy.
Channing has written for the American Prospect, and has been a guest on the PostBourgie podcast; his work has also appeared on The Root, Alternet, and Feministing.
Channing is @thatssochanning on Twitter, and is the human behind @colorlines.
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Will You Be Cutting Funding to Susan G. Komen? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on February 6 2012, 9:31AM
After last week’s news that Susan G. Komen For The Cure is defunding Planned Parenthood, many of our readers say they’re doing their own defunding of Komen.
Topics: Planned Parenthood
‘Little Known Black History Facts’ Talks Outside the Family. So What?
by Channing Kennedy on February 6 2012, 9:30AM
“It’s not in my job description as a black woman to never laugh about my history,” says Tracy Clayton, the humorist behind the Tumblr.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History
Why is Hollywood So Afraid of Black Women? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on January 30 2012, 9:00AM
Colorlines.com readers discuss The Help’s place as a good vehicle for black actresses and a bad vehicle for accurate history.
Topics: Media
Will Racist ‘Food Stamp’ Rhetoric Get Gingrich the Presidency? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on January 23 2012, 9:05AM
Newt’s been extra loud with the racist dogwhistle lately. Will it get him elected? Or is it just free advertising for his anti-poor agenda?
Topics: GOP Primary, Newt Gingrich, Politics
Do Tebow’s Politics Get a Pass Because They’re Conservative? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on January 17 2012, 9:37AM
Colorlines.com readers talk football, “family values,” and race.
Topics: Arts & Culture
Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri: Rapper, Jokester, Community Organizer?
by Channing Kennedy on January 17 2012, 9:36AM
The joke-rap critical darling has never shied away from race and politics. Now he’s heading home, to help SEVA NY fight for fair representation for Queens’ newest immigrant communities.
Topics: Arts & Culture
What If Nobody Told You Your Daughter Had Been Mistakenly Deported? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on January 9 2012, 8:51AM
In a horrific case of mistaken identity, a 14-year-old African-American girl from Dallas was deported to Colombia — while her family ran a desperate missing person search.
Topics: Immigration
If You Were A White Forbes Columnist Commenting On Black Kids… [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on January 2 2012, 9:36AM
Readers come up with excellent responses to Forbes writer Gene Marks’ much-mocked “If I Were A Poor Black Kid…”
Topics: Media
‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Andrew Ti’s Tumblr Has Your (Hilarious) Answer
by Channing Kennedy on January 2 2012, 9:36AM
Andrew Ti has no qualifications to answer the internet’s race questions, besides common sense and a string of curse words. And maybe that’s enough.
Topics: Arts & Culture, Media
U.S. Somalis Can’t Support Families During Famine, Thanks To Anti-Terror Laws
by Channing Kennedy on December 16 2011, 9:42AM
A single small bank in Minneapolis has been the only way for many U.S. Somali immigrants to send money home. Now, community organizers like Hassan Warsame are fighting to keep its program running.
Topics: Global Affairs, National Security
Who Pays the Price for DC’s Morning-After Pill Decision? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on December 12 2011, 10:00AM
Readers discuss the morning-after pill, ruled ‘safer than aspirin’ by the FDA but scandalized by the Obama administration.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
Charles & Ray Eames Get Some L.A. Love From Ice Cube
by Channing Kennedy on December 8 2011, 6:17PM
Rapper and actor (and architecture student) Ice Cube shows some love for egalitarian design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames, in a video for a new L.A. arts campaign.
Topics: Celebrate Love
Does Apple Have a Responsibility to Women? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on December 5 2011, 9:30AM
Is the iPhone 4S’ feminist-fail a laughing matter, or part of a pattern of willful corporate obliviousness? Colorlines.com readers hash it out.
Manu Chao Performs ‘Clandestino’ At Sheriff Arpaio’s Tent City
by Channing Kennedy on December 1 2011, 5:22PM
The musician made a special stop in Arizona on his U.S. tour.
Topics: Celebrate Love
Did You Talk About Race on Thanksgiving? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on November 28 2011, 9:45AM
Colorlines.com readers discuss Alabama’s HB 56, and Elon James Whites’ on-the-ground report on its effects, in the context of Thanksgiving and family history.
Topics: Colorlines Press, Immigration
Obama Knows Families are Shattered by Deportation. Now What? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on November 21 2011, 10:00AM
President Obama responded to our publisher’s report on children of deportees getting stuck in foster care; now, our readers respond to him.
Topics: Deportation Dragnet
How Do We Dismantle Rape Culture? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on November 14 2011, 9:30AM
From Penn State to Herman Cain, the hazards of patriarchy have come out in full force. Here’s what you had to say.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
Help a New Documentary Show Love For Film Star Anna May Wong
by Channing Kennedy on November 10 2011, 5:58PM
A new documentary about the controversial, barrier-breaking Asian film star needs your help.
Topics: Celebrate Love
How Can We Stop ICE from Shattering Families? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on November 7 2011, 9:40AM
Readers discuss ARC’s new report, which lays out how children are being taken from undocumented parents.
Topics: Deportation Dragnet
Can Your Halloween Costume Be Racist, Even If You Aren’t? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on October 31 2011, 10:38AM
In our most-commented post ever, readers dig deep into the rules of casual Halloween racism, in light of a viral new campaign by Ohio student group STARS.
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