Mainstream Media Continues to Fail Black Voices

Don’t be fooled by the new ‘woke’ race coverage — it’s business as usual

Jeremy Helligar
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5 min readJan 13, 2021

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Colin Jost and Michael Che on Weekend Update, “Saturday Night Live.” Photo: YouTube

“A change is gonna come,” Sam Cooke sang on his 1964 album, Ain’t That Good News. Five months later, with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it did. But the burden of being Black in America has barely budged.

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Jeremy Helligar
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