People who decide which news is covered: 85% white People who decide which music is produced: 95% white Teachers: 83% white Full-time college professors: 84% white . . .”6 Given that white people currently constitute only 60 percent of American citizens, you can see how far out of proportion those statistics are. Since the Trump election, the “whitelash” (per CNN commentator Van Jones) that followed our first Black president, and the resurrection of emboldened racism across the country, many of us feel this imbalance is only going to get worse. Vanessa Daniel, executive director of the
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