Black History Month media

During February 2021, Black History Month, we are shining a light on influential Black journalists and news media throughout U.S. history.

By News Literacy Project

News Literacy Project
Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you've never heard of
BBC News - By Farhana Haider
It's 50 years since photographer Moneta Sleet became the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Has his work received the recognition it deserves? On 9 April 1968, Moneta Sleet...
Oct 28, 2019
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942)
georgiaencyclopedia.org
Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of …
Mar 7, 2014
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam (1936- )
blackpast.org - by contributed by: Keshler Thibert
Dorothy Butler Gilliam is a journalist, editor, media educator, feminist, author, and former president of the National Association of Black …
Dec 26, 2020
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Ethel Payne
womenshistory.org
Ethel Payne is known as the First Lady of the Black Press, because of her fearlessness as a journalist and a Civil Rights activist. Throughout her …
Mar 8, 2019
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Gordon Parks Biography, Life Quotes
theartstory.org
Biography of Gordon Parks Gordon Rodger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas to Sarah and Andrew Jackson Parks, a tenant …
Aug 31, 2019