In this day-and-age where people, public companies and publications give platitudes to social justice, John has spent decades giving sweet and tears, and even sacrificing in his career, to tell those stories. Today, we are going to talk about the importance of journalists telling those stories and why the forces of the industry, despite the words, push back against that happening.

"I'm convinced that most people who consume news and think they have a sense of what we do as journalists, really don't have a clue and that's not a put down but I think, especially for African American journalists, journalists of color inside mainstream newsrooms, the kind of daily grind that we face, in part because our perspective is still not celebrated or appreciated. It is tolerated often and it is not completely embraced." - John Wesley Fountain

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