Free Press and Color Of Change will host a virtual town hall on March 8 to discuss the Kerner Commission report and the media’s role in creating racial divisions.
Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, leaving the island without power and phone service, and damaging 95 percent of all cell towers.
Voices for Internet Freedom, which fights for the digital rights of communities of color, is calling on the FCC to abandon its Net Neutrality-killing scheme.
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn confessed “that a small part” of her was feeling “a little down” when she arrived at the Los Angeles Community Action Network in the city’s Skid Row neighborhood on Wednesday for a public forum on internet-related issues.
In January, Trump appointed Ajit Pai as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. In so doing he found someone who shares his disdain for popular democracy, privacy rights, the truth and the poor.
For years, politicians and the press have played a major role in sanitizing King by tethering his legacy to his “I Have a Dream” speech at 1963’s March on Washington.
Race has become a central focus in our country’s daily political and social conversations.
That’s why Free Press recently co-hosted an event about the media’s reporting on race and dog-whistle politics.
