by lindaoppenheim | Oct 4, 2017 | Opinion
Kelly Macias analyzes the media treatment of Stephen Paddock. “Even in his death, Paddock is afforded something that, in life, is not afforded to people of color. He gets to be seen as an individual—not as a member of a suspect ethnic identity group, even one...
by lindaoppenheim | May 29, 2017 | Opinion
Mubarakah Ibrahim describes her son’s methods for coping with seeing a constant stream of images and stories of black people being murdered.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 8, 2017 | Opinion
In her analysis of the recent controversial Pepsi commercial and America’s inclination to exclude black women from history and news coverage, Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah coins a new word. “I propose the verb “to Pepsify” should...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 30, 2017 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
Morgan Jerkins op ed in the New York Times (March 29, 2017) summarizes the aspects of the problem of missing African American and Latina girls. White mainstream media ignores this issue, devoting disproportionate coverage to white, upper middle-class women and...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 21, 2017 | Video
“I created a multimedia project that humanizes and decriminalizes the societal image of black boys and black men dressed in hoodies. The media has always put a negative light on black men in hoodies and even when you google “black boy hoodie” you get images of...
