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Bio:
Kathy Roberts Forde is Professor of Journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a US journalism historian and co-editor of the award-winning book Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. She co-edits the book series Journalism & Democracy at UMass Press with Sid Bedingfield.
Panel from Democracy Summit:
The Call is Coming From Inside the House
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She/her/hers
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“I’m talking about why this history matters, why it’s important that people working in the journalism industry understand how the white press in the South – and in other parts of the country, too – built white supremacy into the actual news media system.” -Source
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