This by @SidBedingfield gets at the heart of it: The tradition of the Black press has been to fight for and save democracy. No neutrality. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
I’ve spoken about this repeatedly. We’ve never had an objective press. And Black people could not pretend to objectivity in a nation that was actively legislating against their rights. 
My only quibble here is that this wasn’t just happening in the white Southern press. White Northern newspapers advocated Northern Black Codes, segregation, keeping Black children out of public schools, and the expulsion of Black citizens. They also were complicit w Southern media
I’ll say for the millionth time: This is why studying history matters. Our perspectives, our journalism, our understandings of the way we should do our work and the nation we cover, are being shaped by our history whether we know it or not.
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