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L.A. Civil Rights Dept., Black Journalists Discuss Challenges of Equity in Media
By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer
Published February 25, 2021
Top, from left, are Capri Maddox and Beverly White. At bottom are Brandon Brooks and Angel Jennings. (Youtube.com)
The perspective of Blacks is a critical element of accurate reporting, especially when it comes racially-tinged events such as the rise of White supremacist groups and the inauguration of the first Black woman vice president.
But are the people responsible for those reports making an effort to include the minority viewpoint? That’s the question the Los Angele Civil + Human Rights & Equity Department sought to answer on Feb. 23.
Assistant Dean Jacqueline Jones (Morgan State University School of Journalism- via Twitter). “It’s still taking shape,” said Jacqueline Jones, Assistant Dean for Programs and Chairman of the Department of Multimedia Journalism for
Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communications, about the ½ million dollars donated to the university to finance a
NBCU Academy. “This semester we’re mapping out the strategy to start in the Fall.”
The grant came from NBCUniversal, which donated an overall $6.5 million to 17 academic institutions of which Morgan received $500,000. The grant will help to offer scholarships to the NBCU Academy that provides professional mentoring, new equipment, seminar course development and guest lecturers. The NBCU Academy will provide journalism training on multiple platforms to provide hands-on learning experiences.
History books tell the stories of the mass protests in Selma, Birmingham and Washington, D.C., and the charismatic national leaders that made headlines, but that was only one part of the civil rights movement.
Charles Cobb, an activist who spent his teenage and young adult years organizing change in the 1960s, aimed to paint a more complete picture of the civil rights movement Tuesday night as the keynote speaker of Carolina’s annual African American History Month lecture.
“Largely missing from the narrative about the civil rights movement and the work that went into building it is that, in many instances, it was led by young people,” he said.