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“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and trust the…

— Wesley Lowery

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what…

— Colson Whitehead

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution -…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you…

— Bill Cosby

I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of black people…

— Logan Browning

“So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you go to…

— Don Winslow

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of…

— Shelby Steele

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

The liberal-run institution of journalism does not allow probing of real problems facing black people. That is prohibited. It might lead to actual solutions.…

— Jason Whitlock

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an…

— Aberjhani

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan