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“The group was formed in the years after the White House-appointed Kerner Commission concluded that poverty and institutional racism had led to the urban riots of the late 1960s and that for too long the news media had covered the country ‘with white men’s eyes and white perspective’…The report helped spur Black journalists to form their own professional organizations in several cities. But Mr. Brock, who had already helped found the Washington Association of Black Journalists, was among those who believed that a national organization was needed to promote more aggressive hiring practices across the industry and to improve how people of color were covered.” —
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Paul Brock
