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Jenni Young

Don't Hire People With "Black Sounding Names" --The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show - You... - 1 views

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    Jesse Lee Peterson is founder of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, an American religious nonprofit organization dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans.
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    Jesse Lee Peterson is founder of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, an American religious nonprofit organization dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans.
Jenni Young

Racist Radio - Sasheer Zamata - Official Comedy Stand Up - YouTube - 0 views

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    Racist Radio - voiceovers for advertisements targeted at "urban" black Americans
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    Racist Radio - voiceovers for advertisements targeted at "urban" black Americans
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    Racist Radio - voiceovers for advertisements targeted at "urban" black Americans
Jenni Young

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - 0 views

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    Has link to Caricatures and Stereotypes of African-Americans.
Jenni Young

Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views

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    9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.
Jenni Young

Dark Girls: New Documentary From Producer Bill Duke Tackles Colorism - 0 views

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    "Dark Girls" is a powerful documentary on the issue of the separation - between light-skinned and dark-skinned African-Americans.
Jenni Young

Racism within African-American Communities in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Paradise - 0 views

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    Extended essay
Jenni Young

Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions - 1 views

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    The photographs of unrest in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer have drawn comparisons to pictures of the Deep South in the 1960s.
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    The photographs of unrest in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer have drawn comparisons to pictures of the Deep South in the 1960s.
Jenni Young

Will Ferguson be a moment or a movement? - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    What it will take for the events in Ferguson to bring lasting change
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    What it will take for the events in Ferguson to bring lasting change
Jenni Young

How the Daily News Cover Changed Overnight - Then Changed Again | News | Philadelphia M... - 0 views

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    Events in Ferguson - and angry readers - forced changes in real time.
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    Events in Ferguson - and angry readers - forced changes in real time.
Jenni Young

Young, black and speaking out after the Trayvon Martin case - 0 views

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    Black teens personalize Trayvon Martin's death in their poetry: "What it means to be a young black man in society...people don't value your life," says Ayinde Grimes, 17.
Jenni Young

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? - 0 views

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    Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
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    Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
Jenni Young

Examining Coverage Of The Trayvon Martin Case : NPR - 0 views

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    Steve Inskeep talks to Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, about how media outlets are emphasizing different aspects of the Trayvon Martin story to grab the attention of particular audiences. Martin is the Florida teen who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer in February.
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    Steve Inskeep talks to Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times, about how media outlets are emphasizing different aspects of the Trayvon Martin story to grab the attention of particular audiences. Martin is the Florida teen who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer in February.
Jenni Young

When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims - 0 views

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    This pervasive and not-so-subtle media bias is right in front of your eyes....
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    This pervasive and not-so-subtle media bias is right in front of your eyes....
Jenni Young

Coverage Of Michael Brown Shooting Story Triggers Brilliant #IfTheyGunnedMeDown Hashtag - 0 views

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    The Hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown tweets feature two different photos of the same person and the question, "If they gunned me down, which picture would they use?"
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    The Hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown tweets feature two different photos of the same person and the question, "If they gunned me down, which picture would they use?"
Jenni Young

Media Coverage of Trayvon Martin Case - 0 views

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    New York Times columnist Charles Blow talked about media coverage of race in general, and the Trayvon Martin case specifically.
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    New York Times columnist Charles Blow talked about media coverage of race in general, and the Trayvon Martin case specifically. 
Jenni Young

Behind A Twitter Campaign, A Multitude Of Stories : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views

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    The #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag, featuring pointedly juxtaposed images of the same person, drew plenty of coverage this week. We wanted to hear more about some of the individuals in the photos.
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    The #IfTheyGunnedMeDown hashtag, featuring pointedly juxtaposed images of the same person, drew plenty of coverage this week. We wanted to hear more about some of the individuals in the photos.
Jenni Young

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Hashtag Responds to Michael Brown Shooting - TIME - 0 views

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    The hashtag emerged as a response to the media portrayal of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black male who was fatally shot by police in Missouri Saturday
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    The hashtag emerged as a response to the media portrayal of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black male who was fatally shot by police in Missouri Saturday
Jenni Young

Shooting Spurs Hashtag Effort on Stereotypes - 0 views

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    The police shooting of Michael Brown, a Missouri teenager, has prompted a social media campaign over negative depictions of young black men in the news media.
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    The police shooting of Michael Brown, a Missouri teenager, has prompted a social media campaign over negative depictions of young black men in the news media.
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