Abstract
This chapter applies the taxonomy to specific examples, then summarizes the three contemporary racial inflection points examined in the book: the question of whether the US was “past racism” because President Barack Obama was elected, the birth and growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after unarmed African American teen Michael Brown, Jr., was killed by a white police officer. The chapter addresses Traditional journalism’s problematic legacy of racial coverage, unfulfilled goals of newsroom diversity initiatives, and the parallel ways in which the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and the 2014 Ferguson Commission Report blamed journalists for failure to contextualize racial issues. It explores how digital technology has amplified the voices of a younger, more racially diverse, more politically engaged audience.
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