Black Media: Makers and Keepers of History
Thursday, February 10, 2022 • 5:00-6:30 pm EST
Speakers:
Last year, the Black Media Initiative commissioned a comparative content analysis of the Black press and US mainstream media. We found that Black media connects present events to the historical record, keeping track of Black experience. The word “history” itself is uniquely prevalent in Black media across a diversity of topics when compared to mainstream media. What role does history play in the present and future of the Black press and its coverage?
Join us for a public conversation where we’ll highlight the ways Black media uniquely integrates history into coverage, the harm that has been done historically against Black media, and the ways that individuals and organizations can be a part of the solution of reparative justice.
In this conversation, hear from Black publishers and media leaders about:
- The importance of history in Black media
- The historical and present harms perpetrated against Black media
- What reparations for Black media might look like
The forum will be held online using Zoom. Please follow the instructions you receive from CCM after registering. Email CCM if you do not receive a confirmation message.
About the Black Media Initiative Initiative: The Black Media Initiative is a national capacity building initiative for Black owned and controlled media. Its aim is to support Black media by providing research, training and connections. We are a part of the Center for Community Media which is housed at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. |
Speakers:
 Nehemiah D. Frank is the founder & editor-in-chief of The Black Wall Street Times and is a descendant of the historic Greenwood Community, dubbed the Black Wall Street. Frank's work appears in TIME Magazine, Education Post and Tulsa People and various other publications. He attended Harold Washington College and Oklahoma State University, earning a degree in political science. Frank is a formal teacher and assistant principal and cares about equity and diversity in education. He gave a TED Talk about education in 2018. He is a founding delegate for the
National Parents Union and serves on various boards, community and national projects.
 Cash Michaels is an award-winning contributing writer for The Wilmington Journal, Greater Diversity News in Wilmington, The County News in Charlotte, The Carolina Peacemaker in Greensboro, The Urban News in Asheville and The Carolina Times in Durham, NC. Michaels has also been a contributing writer to The Amsterdam News in New York. Many of his stories are also carried across the nation via the 200-member National Newspaper Publishers Association.
 Dr. Miya Williams Fayne is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at California State University Fullerton. Her research investigates the Black press in the new media age. Her work has received top paper awards from AEJMC’s Minorities and Communication Division and the National Communication Association’s African American Communication and Culture Division. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Williams Fayne worked as an editorial assistant for Jet and Ebony magazines. In addition, she has written for Blast Magazine, Chicago Union
Teacher magazine, USC Trojan Family Magazine, N’Digo magapaper and The Chicago Defender newspaper.
 Raised in Winston Salem, NC, Venneikia Williams now resides in Atlanta and is an active community member. She supports the Free Press team in the development, design and successful implementation of the Media 2070 campaign for media reparations. This includes liaising with coalition partners, fostering external relationships, supporting newsroom training and developing a curriculum and necessary collateral materials. Before joining Free Press, she was engaged in faith and community-organizing work in St. Louis. As a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she uses her talents to amplify Black stories and liberate Black lives.
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