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In January 2007, NCMR / The National Conference for Media
Reform, convened in Memphis, TN. Memphis is the home of the
National Civil Rights Museum housed in the former Lorraine Motel - the hallowed ground upon which The
Reverend Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968... by a single individual or
an entire society is still, and will be, argued for generations.
Perhaps the civil rights movement - and particularly Dr
King's brilliant strategies on how to confront it - is the true progenitor of the
US Media upheaval. That upheaval continues today in a negative swing of the
pendulum.
Certainly before King, there was no mention in the popular parlance of a
"liberal media" that must be ridiculed, suppressed and
eliminated - questioned on its patriotism and condemned for stating the
truths that millions of Americans already know yet continue to deny.
This panel brings together accomplished media and civil
rights scholars and activists to discuss the relationship of the media to
the struggle for civil rights and social justice and the unique role that Dr
King played in focusing the eye of American media on "The Negro
Problem" and finally forcing the fundamental change that America
avoided for centuries.
The panel included - in order of appearance
Professor
Leonard Baynes / Moderator / St Johns Univ School of Law / Director
- Ronald Brown Ctr for Civil Rights & Economic Development
Hon
D'Army Bailey / Jurist / nominee to TN Supreme Court / founder
National Civil Rights Museum
Dr
Charles McKinney / Rhodes College Dept of History /
Founding member and Senior Fellow of The Jamestown Project
Mark
Lloyd / Author - Prologue to a Farce / Center for American
Progress / presently VP for Strategic Initiatives at Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights
Dr
Mara Einstein / Author - Brands of Faith / Prof of Media Studies
Queens College (click Faculty/Mara Einstein)
Click here for World Association for Christian Communication
Click here for Nashville Post interview with D'Army Bailey on his TN Supreme Court
nomination
Click here for Democracy Now! interview with Vincent Harding
Click here for Silence is Violence New Orleans grassroots activists
Click here for DM online call for new FBI investigation into deaths of Chaney Goodman
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