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What "Coffee With the Dean" looks like at Merrill

Stories, NewsNyla CherryDecember 4, 2023Coffee With the Dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Philip Merrill Journalism School, Rafael Lorente, Student engagement, JournalismComment

Digging through the Oklahoma red dirt, journalist and professor DeNeen Brown uncovers stories of Tulsa’s racist past

A quiet, creative girl born in Oklahoma and raised in Kansas, a young Brown didn’t foresee a career in journalism, but she has taken on a role that is far from how she would self describe. She spent her childhood playing in the Oklahoma red dirt and now spends her adulthood digging to uncover the truth of one of the worst acts of racial terror in American history that happened on that same soil.

Historical struggles of Black journalism continue to persist

Of the University of Maryland’s many student news publications, there is only one whose purpose is to accurately share the stories of the university’s Black students.