{"id":4656,"date":"2021-01-04T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/04\/the-truth-in-black-and-white-the-kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-history-of-racist-coverage-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:00:01","slug":"the-truth-in-black-and-white-the-kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-history-of-racist-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/the-truth-in-black-and-white-the-kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-history-of-racist-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Truth in Black and White\u201d: The Kansas City Star Apologizes for History of Racist Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a historic step, The Kansas City Star, one of the most influential newspapers in the Midwest, has apologized for the paper\u2019s racist history. The paper\u2019s top editor, Mike Fannin, admitted the Star and a sister paper had reinforced segregation, Jim Crow laws and redlining, and \u201crobbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition\u201d with its biased coverage over many decades. We speak with Fannin and Mar\u00e1 Rose Williams, a longtime education writer at the paper who led the effort to examine the newspaper\u2019s coverage of the Black community following the police killing of George Floyd and the nationwide racial justice uprising this year. \u201cMainstream newspapers across the country, not just The Kansas City Star, have not done a good job of covering the Black community,\u201d says Williams.<\/p>\n

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