Touchstones

A few of the journalists whose history-making work reminds us of who we are...

marvel cooke

"I was interested in the conditions under which people had to work and live...

I think some editors had problems with me reporting things as I saw them."

marlon riggs

"When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you knowing it, must be the first to speak it."

andy kopkind

"To be revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win."

Ida B. Wells

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."



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