When Black Women Journalists Fight Back
President Trump’s maligning of black women journalists set me back this week. I wanted to think hard about why, amidst all his sparring with the press, these attacks especially rankled me. History is, in part, the answer. The denigration of black women journalists, and at the White House at that, has a long history, one that trades on questions about their very right to be part of the body politic and the Fourth Estate.