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Banning political ads favors incumbents and Google and Facebook online, that impacts legacy media, whoever the media covers,” Zuckerberg stated. which in turn now have less revenue for journalistic He reportedly invoked Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin pursuits, like informing their communities and holding Luther King, Jr., and Black Lives Matter as a means of elected and public officials to account,” Charles stated. positioning Facebook as a champion for freedom of speech. To that end, African American media needs to stand “The Facebook news tab is a shiny new object to distract with the Save Journalism Project and others who have ATLANTA (AP) – A daughter of the Rev. Martin from the damage Zuckerberg has done to journalism and a been sounding the alarm around platform domination and Luther King Jr. has sent a letter to Comcast executives in ploy to steal journalists’ content without compensating us,” advertising monopoly, he added. which she accuses the company of trying to “dismantle” a said Laura Bassett, the co-founder of the Save Journalism “Big Tech needs to be checked, and the corrosive way law barring racial discrimination. Project and the former senior politics editor for HuffPost. they utilize content addressed. Editorializing and reaching The letter released Saturday from the Rev. Bernice “This initiative will only further his agenda to derail out to local, state, and federal officials who should be King addresses a $20 billion lawsuit from comedian and the journalism industry so that Facebook can be the bearer looking at these issues is a start,” Charles said. media mogul Byron Allen that is headed to the U.S. of all the news, stated Bassett, who was laid off from her Supreme Court . Justices are scheduled to hear arguments in the case Wednesday. A lower court ruled in favor of Allen, who says Comcast declined to distribute his channels because he’s black. Justices are weighing whether Allen needs to show that race was just a factor in Comcast’s decision or whether it was the sole factor. If Comcast wins, the bar will be high to bring and Coping with the death of her beloved father, the succeed with similar suits. Black girls, and other girls of color, experience by fire of the only home she knew, and facing King says if Comcast wins, “pivotal” antidiscriminatory, disparate, punitive, and unfair destruction constant bullying, Ariana, another story shared by the discrimination legislation could be compromised. treatment in school, including suspensions, filmmakers, found herself at a breaking point. “There is so “Are you prepared to say business decisions based on expulsions, referrals to law enforcement and arrests much rage building in me,” the teen shares in the film. racism are acceptable if combined with other non-racist reasons?” King wrote to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Now, 16, Ariana said she didn’t know how to deal on school campuses, at rates that exceed the public Comcast has said its decision not to carry Allen’s school population in aggregate — and far exceed with the adversity she faced at home and school. She was channels has nothing to do with race. It has called Allen’s suspended multiple times as classmates would pick on her those experienced by their white female peers. content “not particularly high quality.” because “I don’t look the way they look or dress the way “We have been forced to appeal this decision to they dress.” defend against a meritless $20 billion claim, but have kept By Stacy M. Brown Fortunately, a change in schools altered the trajectory our argument narrowly focused,” a Comcast spokesperson NNPA Newswire Correspondent of her life. Ariana, now a drummer in her school band at said in response to King’s letter. “This case cannot detract Black girls who have been subject to punitive school the Columbus City Preparatory School for Girls, has been from Comcast’s strong civil rights and diversity record or policies and practices are at an increased risk of coming able to turn her life around with the help of teachers, whom our outstanding record of supporting and fostering diverse into contact with the juvenile and criminal courts and she credits with guiding her toward a positive response to programming from African-American owned channels. leaving school altogether, ultimately impeding their ability the challenges she faces. There has been no finding of discriminatory conduct by to achieve future success and lead successful and healthy Some Black girls, like Samaya and Ariana, face Comcast against this plaintiff by any court, and there has lives, according to a new documentary, “Pushout: The educational, judicial, and societal disparities. Black girls, been none.” Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.” and other girls of color, experience discriminatory, disparate, The film presents a number of these stories in punitive, and unfair treatment in school, including heartbreaking detail and further explores a topic that was suspensions, expulsions, referrals to law enforcement and originally presented in the 2016 book of the same name by arrests on school campuses, at rates that exceed the public Monique W. Morris. school population in aggregate — and far exceed those “Why not go to heaven now? I don’t want to be here,” experienced by their White female peers. Samaya, one of the girls featured in the film, says at one “This has to change. Our girls deserve more,” the point. filmmakers write on their website. At 12, Samaya is now an honor student. It has taken According to the most recent U.S. Department of years of therapy and a change of school for her to recover Education Office for Civil Rights data, Black girls are seven SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – An advocacy group from the traumatic incident that led her to a bridge above a times more likely to be suspended from school, and four tracking misinformation says it has found an increase in highway contemplating suicide at the age of 7. times more likely to be arrested on a school campus than fake political news shared on Facebook ahead of the 2020 The event: One of her teachers, Mr. Rodriquez, gave their White peers. presidential elections. Samaya a warning after a minor disagreement with another Punitive practices and policies in schools fuel systemic The group, Avaaz, said Wednesday that child. inequities and result in negative outcomes based on race misinformation is still being spread on Facebook despite Then, after Samaya accidentally knocked over a glass and gender. They have profound consequences for Black measures the company has put in place since the 2016 of water, Rodriguez punished Samaya by dragging her and girls: rather than promote safety and well-being, these elections. her chair outdoors “in a fit of frightening rage.” The researchers tracked the 100 most widely shared practices disproportionately push Black girls out of school The teacher pulled Samaya out of her classroom on and further into the margins. false news stories between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31 this year. The stories they tracked had all been fact-checked and a cold 46-degree December morning. She did not have “Pushout,” is being screened in several cities. For more on a coat or jacket. She was wearing only a pink and gray information, or to host a screening, visit www.pushoutfilm. A new documentary explores the unequal treatment debunked by Facebook’s third-party fact-checking black girls face. (PUSHOUT FILM POSTER) partners, which include The Associated Press. sweatshirt and blue jeans. com. The group found that, collectively, the fake stories were posted more than 2.3 million times and had an estimated 158.9 million views, along with 8.9 million likes, comments and shares. The false stories targeted both political parties, though Avaaz says the majority were against Democrats and liberals. Most of the false news sources were individual users’ or non-official political By Tanu Henry pages. attended at the Oakland Convention Center. Later on Sunday, Americans across the country California Black Media Avaaz, a left-leaning online advocacy group, said The next morning, just about 24 hours later on and Californians across the state - joined Tyson’s shocked stories it found spreading even after they were debunked. On Saturday, Nov. 9, Bernard J. Sunday, Nov. 10, Kaiser Permanente, the health insurance family members, colleagues and loved ones to remember That included one falsely claiming that President Donald Tyson, the first Black chairman and and hospital system Tyson led as CEO since 2013 – and the Bay Area native’s many contributions to his home state Trump’s grandfather was a pimp and a tax evader and that CEO of California-Based Kaiser his father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. That story Chairman since 2014 – announced the 60-year-old and country. Permanente, spoke at AfroTech, executive’s sudden death. “Our nation has lost a powerful, brilliant, and inspiring had an estimated 29 million views. Another story falsely a convention organized by the “It is with profound sadness that we announce that leader and voice for health equity and health justice,” claiming that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar attended an Los Angeles-based digital Bernard J. Tyson unexpectedly passed away early today Robert K. Ross, president and CEO of the California Al-Qaeda training camp had an estimated 77,000 views. media company Blavity. In response to the report, Facebook said it has taken in his sleep,” Kaiser Permanente wrote in a statement Endowment (TCE), told California Black Media in an “I’ll be discussing steps to reduce the amount of false news items posted and published on the organization’s website. email. “Peace, blessings, and the Lord’s loving embrace to technology and equity in on its service, including more prominent warning Tyson’s family has not yet announced the cause of his my friend Bernard, and to his family.” TCE is the largest shared healthcare,” Tyson tweeted not labels on the content. death. private health foundation in the state. long before sitting on a panel at “Multiple independent studies have found that we’ve “On behalf of our Board of Directors, employees and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) said cut the amount of fake news on Facebook by more than the annual gathering of Black physicians,” Kaiser’s statement continued, “we extend our Tyson helped to expand health care coverage among half since the 2016 election,’’ the company said. techies that he and more deepest sympathies to Bernard’s family during African Americans in California. than 5,000 other Avaaz said in the report that the findings are the this very difficult time. An outstanding “I am heartbroken upon learning of the passing of “tip of the iceberg of disinformation’’ ahead of the 2020 guests leader, visionary and champion for Bernard Tyson,” Lee said. “Bernard dedicated his life to elections. high-quality, affordable health care making health care more accessible for our communities. for all Americans.” My prayers and condolences are with his family and loved Tyson is survived by his ones during this time.” wife, Denise Bradley-Tyson, Gov. Gavin Newsom also issued a statement shortly and three sons: Bernard after finding out about Tyson’s death Sunday. J. Tyson, Jr., Alexander “Jennifer and I are deeply saddened to learn of and Charles. the passing of health care pioneer and our dear friend LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Producers Guild of Bernard Tyson,” the governor wrote. “Bernard’s vision and America will honor Octavia Spencer for her work behindinfluence made an impact at home and abroad, and he led the-camera at its 2020 awards show. with excellence on behalf of millions of Kaiser patients and Spencer, who was among the producers of last year’s thousands of employees.” best picture Oscar winner “Green Book,’’ will receive the Tyson, known across the country as one of the leading Visionary Award at the Producers Guild Awards on Jan. experts on U.S. health policy, was the only Black CEO of 18. a billion-dollar corporation of a similar size in California. The honor is meant to celebrate producers who create If Kaiser were publicly traded and were not a non-profit “inspiring, uplifting stories that add unique value to corporation, it would have been the 42nd largest Fortune society and culture.’’ 500 company in the United States. Spencer also served as an executive producer on Tyson was also one of only five Black CEOS in “Ma,’’ a horror film released earlier this year that gave the the United States leading a major corporation. Kaiser Oscar-winning actress her first starring role . Previous recipients of the award include Brad Pitt, Permanente administered 12.2 million health plans in 2018 Ava DuVernay and “black-ish’’ creator Kenya Barris.
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