Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice

by John A. Powell, Hunter Cutting (Editor), Makani Themba-Nixon (Editor)

Talking the Walk is an incomparable resource for learning to discuss and spin issues of race and racial justice. Its purpose is to help build the capacity of progressive activists and advocates to conduct media work, reframe public debate, and interrupt media stereotypes with messaging around racial justice. This guide is a treasure for democratizing the media landscape and fighting back against our corporate media-saturated environment. Hunter Cutting is a co-founder of We Interrupt this Message, a media strategy and training center. Makani Themba-Nixon is executive director of The Praxis Project and author of Making Policy, Making Change .

Genres: Race, Nonfiction, Justice

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

John Anthony Powell

Reviews

[ivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic resource for small organizations and progressive campaigns on how to use public relations to further racial justice. Useful in many advocacy areas, with concrete examples and samples. If your guerrilla activist collective needs a crash course in media strategy, this is an excellent place to start.

[Brad · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote a piece that appears in this book about the strategic intervention of the Political Ecology Group into what we called the "greening of hate," a campaign by anti-immigrant agitators to co-op the environmental agenda. There's other good material here focused on practical communications strategies.

[Sierra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I generally check books out from the library. When I read a good one, I then go out and buy it. I bought this one. It's interesting and practical for anyone who works professionally in communications and cares about moving forward America on issues of race.