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It's #BlackHistoryMonth but the @latimes works year-round to tell the stories of stories of Black life and Black L.A.

Tonight, our journalists are reflecting on what it's like to cover the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and systemic racism.

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If you have questions for @AngelJennings, @tyrone_beason, @Erika_D_Smith, @makedaeaster and @LZGranderson share them in the replies and we'll answer them during the show. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Assistant Managing Editor of Culture and Talent @AngelJennings is the host of tonight's event.

Prior to her current role, she was a reporter covering L.A. and anchored the Times coverage of Nipsey Hussle's killing.

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Staff writer @tyrone_beason was a reporter for the 2020 election and says he had a realization that it was his job to share the grief and trauma of the last year.

"Being Black... in 2020... it was not a time to hide my Blackness" he said.

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"I found my role to show how the arts can be a crucial part of this movement. But as a Black person, it's been really tiring and exhausting," said Arts reporter @makedaeaster on covering the events of 2020.

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"It’s hard to be able to have these feelings of grief and exhaustion and joy, at times, and then turn around and having to crank out a 1,000 word column about a thing you’ve never completely reflected on," - @Erika_D_Smith on being a columnist in this time twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

As you watch, if you have questions for our journalists. Please share them here.

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As the pandemic and the racial reckoning took hold, @makedaeaster asked herself about the role legacy media outlets - like the @latimes - plays in systemic racism and how she could use her role as a young, Black journalists to change things.

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In Sept. @latimesopinion released an institutional apology for the paper's history of racism. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

"I fundamentally have been changed from this summer," @LZGranderson says

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“I’m not going to stop talking about this subject because this subject hasn’t stopped terrorizing me and my people,” says @LZGranderson
“It’s not just a story. It’s my life”

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Following the 2020 election, @tyrone_beason travelled from South Carolina to DC for the inauguration to reflect on racism in our divided country latimes.com/politics/story…

Over the summer, when the history of racism at the @latimes became a newsroom discussion, Black journalists formed the @LATBlackCaucus and provided demands to make the Times more inclusive

https://twitter.com/LATBlackCaucus/status/1310331946057084928?s=20

Join our conversation with Times journalists @AngelJennings , @tyrone_beason , @makedaeaster , @Erika_D_Smith and @LZGranderson as they reflect on covering the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racism.

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“You call it a reckoning? This is not a reckoning. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Unless we’re able to have the conversations about getting other people up to speed… and talking about, very seriously. the impact that policy has on society.” - @tyrone_beason

Thanks for joining us for a conversation celebrating Black voices.

Follow our journalists @AngelJennings , @tyrone_beason , @Erika_D_Smith , @makedaeaster and @LZGranderson as they continue the work of telling Black stories.

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