Race on the Wire
This chapter addresses Nancy Cunard’s extensive journalism for the Associated Negro Press, and her transparency in claiming that she made “no attempt at all at objective reporting” as she argued against fascism and racism. With the help of gay, white artist and photographer John Banting, Cunard continued to stand up to the barrage of hostility directed at her for her on-going reporting on behalf of black and brown races, Arabs, and Africans. The chapter gives an account of her professional relationship with Charles A. Burnett, director of the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press and her interviews giving voice to black soldiers, war nurses, refugees, and prisoners.