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Omali Yeshitela, political activist, author, and longtime leader of the African People Socialist Party, to trace how Black journalism has functioned as a tool of liberation rather than a referee for “both sides.” From small community papers to global publications like Marcus Garvey’s Negro World, he argues that media has always carried a premise and the oppressed pay the price when that premise is hidden.

This was something that says that we’re on the side of the oppressed. We’re on the side of black people. We want freedom and stated it in no uncertain terms.