Mar 22, 2021 | Entertainment, Media
When the broadcast journalist Nischelle Turner was growing up on a farm in Columbia, Missouri, the first Black female face she recalls seeing on television was a then-University of Missouri-Columbia student, April Eaton, on the local NBC affiliate. “I was floored,”...
Mar 15, 2021 | Detroit, Higher Education, Media
New talk show “HBCU White House” debuts on WHPR-TV in Detroit, on Tuesday March 23, 2021 at 4pm EST. The original television program focuses on political news and business information, breaking down headlines and stories through an HBCU-centric lens. The election of...
Mar 15, 2021 | Journalism, Media
Malcolm X is quoted to have said “the media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.” The media plays a pivotal role in shaping our perceptions of the world and of different groups of people....
Feb 22, 2021 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Media
Facebook has launched We the Culture, a new content initiative created and managed by a team of Black employees that is investing in and amplifying content from Black creators. The company announced an inaugural class of over 120 creators for We the Culture,...
Feb 22, 2021 | Detroit, Leadership, Media
As a child, Karen Hudson Samuels had a front row seat to racial segregation when she attended school in North Carolina. Decades later, Mrs. Samuels would become a curator of Black History and culture in Detroit, helping to preserve buildings and other sites that...
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