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Is the ‘Pigford’ Pushback a Case of Resistance Against Reparations for Black Farmers?
by Brentin Mock on May 6 2013, 1:12PM
Ten scholars from major universities have risen to the defense of black farmers who were accused in a New York Times article of exploiting and defrauding a settlement made to remedy decades of discrimination in financial lending. In a letter…
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
Insiders Say Jenni Rivera’s Death Shows U.S. Media is Clueless About ‘Mexican Anything’
by Jorge Rivas on December 11 2012, 5:36PM
But the biggest media failures in the Jenni Rivera coverage were stories that led with comparisons between Rivera’s death and the murder of Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
BET Co-Founder Says Network Reinforces Negative Stereotypes
by Jorge Rivas on October 15 2012, 4:25PM
The co-founder says the network’s current content reinforces negative stereotypes of blacks in the U.S.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
Latino Stereotypes Thrive in the Media, Negative Attitudes Dominate
by Mónica Novoa on September 20 2012, 12:04PM
An important new study has confirmed many of our hunches about how negative media narratives and portrayals of brown people play out in the minds of non-Latinos.
Topics: Drop the I-Word
Helen Thomas Pays for Crossing a Line Others Trample
by Michelle Chen on June 8 2010, 11:38AM
By now you’ve heard: pioneering Washington journalist Helen Thomas has, thanks to a viral video interview, been pilloried for offensive comments about Israel and ousted from the press corps’ inner sanctum. Her words were definitely incendiary—Jews should “get the hell…
Topics: Media
Shoshana Johnson Wins CNN While Being Female, Black, Herself [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on November 6 2009, 1:59PM
Comparing this data (from Media Metters’ Cable Diversity report): to this empirical evidence: … we can see clear benefits to white males in keeping women and people of color off the air. for those of you without audio: Crooks and…
Topics: Media
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