African American
Related: About this forumHoward Journalism Students Are Fact-Checking Myths About African Americans
A reference tool for when someone spouts off stereotypes and myths.
https://www.good.is/articles/howard-students-fact-checking-tool-for-journalism
Howard Universitys School of Communications recently launched the first fact-checking service dedicated entirely to claims about the African-American community. The website, TruthBeTold.news, publishes student investigations into commonly spouted bullshit like the idea that Planned Parenthood is strategically planning black genocide.
I watched fact-checking sites grow and realized that there was nothing specific that dealt with issues affecting blacks in the U.S., New York Times correspondent and Howard adjunct Ron Nixon, who first proposed the idea, told Nieman Lab. I thought this would be a good idea and perform an important public service, but I also realized it could be a really great teaching tool.
The initiative, founded last semester, is taught as a one-credit class in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film, but open to any Howard student or professor who wants to participate. While the goal is to teach skepticism and digital media literacy, department chair Yanick Rice Lamb emphasizes TruthBeTold.news isnt just a practice site, but aims to be a vital everyday resource and, one day, a sustainable business.
(Snip)
So far, students have debunked the claims that D.C. is still the Chocolate City, that a dollar spent in the black community only stays there for six hours, and that filming the police is driving a wedge between African-American communities and law enforcement. The class is currently researching the saggy pants stereotype.
thereismore
(13,326 posts)be ridiculed and that should be the end of it. The only reason they persist is because of racism, willful belief, among those want to propagate them. I am not sure they are a people accessible by facts.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)That says it all!
The Polack MSgt
(13,189 posts)A little sparse, but I'll keep it bookmarked.
The " Does a Dollar Spent in the Black Community Really Stay There for Only Six Hours?" article was informative and well written/researched.
I hope they keep it up. Mechanics never stop wanting more tools after all, neither should people looking to learn