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The Morgan Global Journalism Review( MGJR) is an online quarterly published by the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University. MGJR’ s mission is to promote journalistic excellence and provide reporting and analysis of media and communications trends, issues and events from an international perspective.
PUBLISHER Jackie Jones
EDITOR DeWayne Wickham
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Randall Pinkston
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Courtland Milloy Sandra Dawson Long Weaver Betty Baye Sylvester Monroe Norris West Sheri Booker McKenzie Curtis Morelys Urbano
COPY EDITORS Osaretin Iyare Wayne Dawkins
DESIGNER Sherry Poole Clark
TECHNICAL SUPPORT Ivery Johnson Hekima Stevenson
WEBMASTER Henry McEachnie
CONTACT US: Morgan Global Journalism Review Email: jacqueline. jones @ morgan. edu
Morgan State University Communication Center 363 Baltimore, MD 21251 Phone:( 443) 885-3502
12 NABJ AT 50: WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE? – The National Association of Black journalists was born in the wake of a spasm of racial unrest and a presidential commission’ s report that chastised the media for its failure to employ Black journalists. Now, a half century later, how is it doing? By Courtland Milloy
16 IN THEIR OWN WORDS- FROM THE NABJ AUDIO ARCHIVES- Shares with readers the actual voices of Milton Coleman and Andrew Young, two people whose appearance at the NABJ’ s 9th annual convention in August 1984, in Atlanta, thrust the Black journalists organization in a national spotlight.
A SPECIAL REPORT ON NEWS DESERTS IN TWO LARGELY ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS OF PARK HEIGHTS, IN BALTIMORE, MD., AND THE BRIXTON SECTION OF LONDON, ENGLAND
20 BRIXTON IS NOT A TEXTBOOK NEWS DESERT, BUT … – In many ways, the Brixton neighborhood of London, England, fits the definition of a“ news desert.” But frustrated residents and an enterprising local newspaper refuse to be defined by the failures of the city’ s mainstream media. By Michael H. Cottman
25 PARK HEIGHTS, A COMMUNITY THAT REFUSES TO BE A NEWS DESERT – Word of mouth and community organizations are the trusted news sources in this section of Northwest Baltimore, which too often has been portrayed negatively by outside media organizations. By Morelys Urbano
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4 DEAN’ S CORNER – Jackie Jones is dean of the School of Global Journalism & Communication.
10 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR – DeWayne Wickham is Dean Emeritus and Director, Center for New Media & Strategic Initiatives School of Global Journalism & Communication.
28 PAGES FROM THE ARCHIVES – History remembers the arrival in England of the Royal Navy troopship HMT Empire Windrush as the start of a migration of Afro Caribbeans to the British Isles. While others came before them, the passengers of the Empire Windrush got a lot of attention from the British press.
31 BOOKSMART … A FEW WORDS ABOUT WORDS – Harlem Rhapsody, a book by Victoria Christopher Murray.
32 PLACES WE OUGHT TO VISIT, THINGS WE OUGHT TO DO – Retired radiation oncologist Alison LaVigne takes readers on a fascinating journey of discovery as she travels to Scotland to explore a land that produced one branch of her family tree. It is a trip that left her yearning for much more.
35 MOVIE REVIEW – Sinners Ryan Coogler’ s latest film is a daring, cinematic plunge into the themes of love, spiritualism, racial identity, racism and the world of the undead in the 1930s American South. Our staff says it is a must-see movie.
36 TRANSITIONS – CHUCK STONE: A GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALIST GETS A POSTHUMOUS PULITZER PRIZE Chuck Stone was a Tuskegee Airman, an award winning newspaper columnist and an esteemed university journalism professor. But his greatest achievement may be that as the catalyst for the 1975 creation of the National Association of Black Journalists. In May, Stone- who died April 6, 2014- received a special Pulitzer Prize.
TIM TOOTEN: THE BALANCING ACT OF FAITH AND REPORTING A recently retired, Emmy-award-winning Baltimore TV education reporter, Tim Tooten founded a church and wrote a children’ s book about education, religion and faith during a broadcast journalism career that spanned four decades.
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