Advocates for Media Diversity

By Brian Farrell ARLINGTON, Va. (DC News Now) — As a member of the U.S. Air Force, Terace Garnier served people here in the United States and around the world, including in Japan. Garnier, who was a broadcast journalist in the military, covered a variety of stories, all the while working to tell her own story. Garnier wrote No Longer Silent, a book in which she discusses the pain and survival that came as the result of sexual assault. “I had just got back from pre-deployment training, and I remember the

By Quintessa Williams For over a century, the Black press has been a force for change: Ida B. Wells investigated lynching for the Chicago Defender when no one else would, reporters at the Baltimore Afro documented the all-Black-women “Six Triple Eight” battalion during World War II, and the St. Louis American amplified protests after the killing of Michael Brown — all with a commitment to reporting stories about Black communities that white-owned media largely ignored. “If we’re not in these newsrooms, nobody’s able to tell our stories,” says Phil Lewis, deputy editor at HuffPost.