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United States: Pulitzer Winner Photojournalist Sprayed And Attacked By Police In Minneapolis

Carolyn Cole, a Los Angeles Times photographer, was covering the protests in Minneapolis on May 31st when the police moved to disperse a crowd. A group of roughly 20 journalists standing apart from the protesters moved aside, but the police attacked them directly with pepper spray and rubber bullets, she said. A colleague, the reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske, shouted, “We’re reporters!”

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United States: Complexity Of Covering Protests As A Black Woman Journalist-Cerise Castle Shot With Rubber Bullets

When in 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary debuted her news weekly, The Provincial Freeman, she was the first black woman to publish a newspaper. That was not an easy milestone to achieve: She had to battle to get her ideas into print. For a start, she migrated to Canada West (today’s Ontario) to avoid United States laws that suppressed independent black activism. From there, she built a team and raised funds.

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