The Kansas City Defender

The Future of Radical Black Media, Cyberculture, and the Black Press

Episode Summary

This is a first-of-its-kind conversation bringing together some of the most brilliant Black media thinkers in the world. Never before has such a diverse, inter-disciplinary group come together to discuss not just the future of Black media, but the Future of Radical Black Media. This conversation took place on a Twitter Space, and starts a few minutes after the Space started so you may not hear folks introduce themselves. The Lineup ⭐ - Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, Publisher of Black Voice News and Founder of Voice Media Ventures - Dr. Kim Gallon, Founder of the Black Press Research Collective - Toriano Porter, Opinion Writer and member of The Star Editorial Board. - Dr. Andre Brock, Black Cyberculture and Black Online Communities at Georgia Tech - Cheryl Thompson-Morton, Director of the Black Media Initiative at for the Center for Community Media at the Newmark J-School - Dr. Anita Varma, Ethicist and Solidarity Journalism Initiative Lead at UT Austin - Dr. E. James West, UK-based historian and writer. He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America (Illinois, 2020)

Episode Notes

Defender Major 🔑 : This is a first-of-its-kind conversation bringing together some of the most brilliant Black media thinkers in the world. Never before has such a diverse, inter-disciplinary group come together to discuss not just the future of Black media, but the Future of Radical Black Media.

 

The Lineup ⭐

- Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, Publisher of Black Voice News and Founder of Voice Media Ventures

- Dr. Kim Gallon, Founder of the Black Press Research Collective

- Toriano Porter, Opinion Writer and member of The Star Editorial Board.

- Dr. Andre Brock, Black Cyberculture and Black Online Communities at Georgia Tech

- Cheryl Thompson-Morton, Director of the Black Media Initiative at for the Center for Community Media at the Newmark J-School

- Dr. Anita Varma, Ethicist and Solidarity Journalism Initiative Lead at UT Austin

- Dr. E. James West, UK-based historian and writer. He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America (Illinois, 2020)