Last night in Manhattan the Women’s Media Center honored a number of female journalists for contributing to the center’s mission “to make women visible and powerful in the media.” Among the honorees were Candy Crowley, the political reporter from CNN, Bonnie Erbe of US News & World Report and PBS, Pam Spaulding, whose blog Pam’s House Blend is a hub of insight and action for the LGBTQ community and Gini Reticker, whose documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell follows the market women of Liberia, a group that exiled one president and installed another who became the first woman president of an African nation.

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For years now, it’s been quite clear to me that brown, beige, black or yellow people don’t warrant the same attention as white people do when it comes to abduction and certain types of violence committed against them.  Not too long ago a shooting occurred on the campus of Hampton University.  Bet you didn’t know that, did you?  Fortunately no one died, but would it have mattered? 

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