Nnpa Award Winners Exhort Black Press to Hold Friends and Enemies Accountable
New York Amsterdam News › September 08, 2009
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[Joseph Lowery] was introduced by Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, as a "giant" among giants, who during the pains of Jim Crow and segregation "didn't kneel to Pharaoh. They didn't bend over to Caesar. They made the world change for the better." Furthermore, because of the election of President Barack Obama as a result of the work of those like Lowery, "Today, African-Americans are the envy of the world," he said.
"The reason we need Black press in 2009 is the same reason we needed it in 1889," he said. "Tonight, Blacks are still doubly unemployed [compared] to whites in America. Tonight, we still have health disparities. Tonight, one of the reasons we're dealing with educational inequities is because the achievement gaps between Blacks and whites today is the same as it was during 1954 when we had Brown v. Board of Education. If we do not have the vehicles to talk about that, it will not address itself.""Every time I go into the airport or I go into the news store, I ask for the Black paper of that community," she told the audience. "And I do it because I kind of know they don't have it, but I have to do it for me... I want to let them know that I'm expecting to see the Black paper. I have enormous respect, indescribable respect for the Black press," said [Clayton]. She added that she once fired a public relations person who eliminated the Black press from top coverage of the Trumpet Awards.WASHINGTON (NNPA)-The National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation, giving four top awards during its annual Newsmaker of the Year Awards gala, was told by those same honorees that its contributions to justice in America is yet untold. Clayton, founder, president and CEO of the Trumpet Awards, said her respect for the Black press is entrenched in the everyday running of her business and personal life.See the full content of this document
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Nnpa Award Winners Exhort Black Press to Hold Friends and Enemies Accountable
WASHINGTON (NNPA)-The National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation, giving four top awards during its annual Newsmaker of the Year Awards gala, was told by those same honorees that its contributions to justice in America is yet untold.
"We have not adequately evaluated the stature of the Black...See the full content of this document
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