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By Josh Stearns, Free Press (Crossposted from freepress.net) 

After becoming the epicenter for press suppression and journalist arrests over the last nine months, the NYPD is trying to rewrite history and pretend like nothing ever happened.

By Betty Yu, Reposted from centerformediajustice.org

“I am a daughter of an [Afghan] refugee, and my taxpayer dollars are being used to kill my family.  The media is playing this [Afghanistan war] as a “good war” and that it is helping to liberate Afghan women. Bombing Afghanistan into oblivion is not going to help these women.  NATO occupation out of Afghanistan!”

-Samira Sayed –Rahman, Afghans for Peace

By Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice

“The Tea Party got the memo.  We didn’t.  How can 15% of the public opinion shape the nation’s political landscape?  What about [the rest] of us?”

-Van Jones during his closing plenary at the 2011 Take Back the American Dream Conference in Washington, D.C.

by Sable Verity

As people of color we know beyond a shadow of a doubt the way we are portrayed in the media is more about stereotypes than truth. It’s not just news media but entertainment media as well. Those in control of the images and information we consume don’t care to accurately portray people of color, or see the importance in empowering said people to help paint the fuller picture--something the NAACP has historically battled against.