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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
DEPUTY EDITOR Osaretin Iyare
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Angela Blount Jason Johnson Morelys Urbano Mark Williams
COPY EDITOR Osaretin Iyare
DESIGNER Sherry Poole Clark
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER & MUSIC CURATOR Ivery Johnson
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
10 10 YEARS AGO, COLIN KAEPERNICK TOOK A STAND BY TAKING A KNEE. WHO STANDS WITH HIM TODAY?
When Colin Kaepernick knelt in protest of police violence in 2016, he was trying to bend the moral arc toward justice. A decade later, Jason Johnson argues, that arc has snapped back. Black coaches have dwindled, Black sports voices have been purged, and many of Kaepernick’ s onetime supporters have quietly returned to the NFL.
14 IN CHOCÓ: A HISTORY OF NEGLECT SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia in August, it hit hardest in Chocó, the country’ s poorest region and home to its largest Afro-descendant population. The disaster exposed generations of neglect in hospitals, roads and schools. It also revealed a community, and a diaspora, that turned to each other to survive.
20 FINDING PAMELA NEWKIRK: MY SEARCH FOR A REMARKABLE WOMAN HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
From the Apollo stage to Nelson Mandela’ s release in Cape Town, Pamela Newkirk has spent her life chasing stories that history tried to forget. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and NYU professor, she has built a career recovering lost Black voices.
22 A BLACK WOMAN IN PARIS Pamela Newkirk went to Paris to trace the Black Americans who made the City of Light their home, from Josephine Baker to James Baldwin. What she found complicated the romance, revealing a city shaped by both Black American genius and French colonial history. Her forthcoming book,“ Exalted,” brings their overlooked stories to light.
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4 DEAN’ S CORNER: Jackie Jones is the Dean of the School of Global Journalism and Communication
8 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR DeWayne Wickham is director of the Center for New Media and Strategic Initiatives
28 PAGES FROM THE ARCHIVE Recovering a Lost Flight and a Sunken History In 1944, a Tuskegee Airman crashed his P-39 fighter plane into Lake Huron, and the wreckage stayed hidden for 70 years. When divers finally found it, a group of Black underwater explorers was called in to document the site. Their work helped ensure that 2nd Lt. Frank M. Moody’ s sacrifice would not stay lost.
30 MOVIE REVIEW: Breaking the Blue Wall For years, Maryland law made it hard to discipline police officers accused of misconduct. Alissa Figueroa’ s documentary follows the people who fought to change that. Driven by grieving families and persistent lawmakers, their campaign was rejected year after year.
32 BOOKSMART Celeste Headlee shares the inspiration behind her new book Freedom’ s Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education
33 TRANSITIONS Since 1819, Alabama’ s constitution has guaranteed the right to speak, write and publish freely. That protection survived even secession. But a new state law now requires public employees, including campus and public radio journalists, to say“ Gulf of America.”
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