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In detail, Myra Washington can explain the very moment media literacy seized her attention and never let go; it was during her years studying communication as an undergraduate, at Vanderbilt University where she vowed to never again consume media the...

Our country is currently experiencing a monsoon of fear, raining down in torrents day in and day out. Sometimes it looks like a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Other times it looks like police aggressively restraining one man...

The challenge marginalized groups face is that many microaggressions are systemic. This means they are embedded in policies, programs and practices at the federal, state and local level. To combat microaggressions means that everyone has to be...

When people think of racism, there’s this idea that it is explicit in nature. However, time has shown that this is not the case and racism can be expressed implicitly or not as outwardly as media would like people to perceive. Many times, when people...

Inequality. Racism. Oppression. Resistance. These are the words penetrating news media across the United States as the country wages war against systemic patterns of disparity. From peaceful protests to violent clashes, society is slowly breathing life...

Charles Becknell Sr. and his son Charles Becknell Jr. carry not only the same names, but the same position as directors of the Black Studies program at The University of New Mexico. Although their terms as director are about 50 years apart, both have wrestled with similar social upheaval and outrage over racism....

To understand the power of a movement that began in 2013, we have to jump back nearly 400 years and grasp onto perhaps the same struggle the Black community fought then; the idea that all people should be treated fairly in the eyes of the law and in...

A wise man once said “if you don’t learn from the past (history) you are condemned to repeat it” to paraphrase the quote slightly. As UNM’s Communications and Marketing Department (UCAM) undertakes an effort to help educate the campus community involving...