SO WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK PEOPLE

SO THIS WEEK IN RACE, GENDER, AND THE MEDIA WE STUDIED HOW RACES ARE VIEWED IN THE MEDIA. I ACTUALLY DID A PROJECT OVER THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, BACK IN 1968 VERY FEW AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE GRACE THE COVER OF THE DAILY. MATTER OF FACT WHEN DR. KING WAS KILLED ONLY ONE BLACK PERSON WAS QUOTED ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. WASNT THERE BLACKS AROUND TO GET QUOTES FROM OR WHERE THEY ALL BURNING DOWN THE CITY, LIKE IT WAS REPORTED. IT WAS A SAD DAY IN THE MEDIA.

Blacks and the media

I am so excited to announce that I am taking a course entitled Race, Gender and the Media. Last time in class we watched this film in which gave us a little history on how the Black Press was started and drop some of the names of my mentors like Ida B Wells and S. E. Cornish. I guess it was exciting to see how people from all races where interested in the history and the development of the black press. After class, I stopped and talked to some of my white classmates about the movie and the information and from the conversation that where overjoyed about what they have just witnessed, this lost piece of history.