WGPR-TV Detroit: Building Black Media Infrastructure in the Postrebellion City

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Annie Laurie Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Black Media

Black Voices, White Power

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Redding
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Black Voices ◽  
Black Media ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Insight Into

When a former Black editor says he was told that Blacks do not care about news by his White boss and a Black deejay is told that his commentary is too hard hitting and not to go to an event featuring a Black militant leader by his White boss, these personal accounts could be extrapolated to mean that there may still be a world filled with White privilege and an ensuing hegemonic bifurcation in a communication studies context. This study utilizes Afrocentricity and the agency that is denied to these two individuals to provide insight into a world where these Black media/newsroom personnel describe how they lost ground to their White media owners. Those interviewed said this world does not promote the agency that comes with Afrocentricity, which is utilized as a critical cultural studies lens to interpret these 18-question qualitative interviews. The environment that those interviewed described is a world not often viewed in the context of White media ownership and the Black-focused content that is produced within them, but is a phenomenon that may be better understood by utilizing an Afrocentric lens in a Communication Studies context.

Toward a Black media philosophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-873
Author(s):  
Armond R. Towns
Keyword(s):  
Media Philosophy ◽  
Black Media

Black Media Matters

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Beckman
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Toni Cade Bambara ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Black Media ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

On May 13, 1985, the City of Philadelphia bombed the home of the radical black organization MOVE that was founded by John Africa in 1972. The military-style attack killed 11 occupants of the house, including 5 children, and destroyed almost two square blocks of a residential neighborhood, rendering 250 men, women and children homeless. In the midst of both contemporary protests responding to excessive police violence against African Americans and the military’s use of drone airpower, “Black Media Matters” returns our attention to the 1987 documentary, The Bombing of Osage Avenue, produced and directed by Louis Massiah, written and narrated by Toni Cade Bambara. Drawing on the archives of both Massiah and Bambara, this essay explores the film as a model of a media response to black political protest, death and suffering that resists spectacularization and oversimplification, and instead fosters historical awareness and critical reflection.

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