Journalists and top Washington, D.C. personalities celebrate journalists of color

Among the best-known names in journalism gathered on the Politics and Inclusion occasion Friday to have fun the work of journalists of coloration as a part of the White Home Correspondents weekend.

The occasion was hosted by CNN’s Abby Phillip and Lauren Wesley Wilson, founder and CEO of ColorComm, Inc, a ladies’s platform that goals to deal with inclusion and variety within the media, communications, advertising, commercial and digital industries.

“There are a number of journalists of coloration who’re working, truthfully, in relative obscurity. And I used to be one in all them for a few years,” Phillip mentioned. “And I felt like there wanted to simply be a possibility for folks to genuinely join with one another, to have fun one another. And in addition simply to love, construct a way of consciousness of simply how a lot energy and affect there may be amongst journalists of coloration in Washington.”

The host committee included CNN’s Don Lemon, Van Jones, Ana Navarro, and Jim Acosta; NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor, PBS’ Geoff Bennett, CBS’s Weijia Jiang, View co-Host Sunny Hostin, MSNBC’s Alicia Menéndez, and Symone Sanders, who served as the previous senior advisor and chief spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris. The occasion came about at a dinner at Washington, D.C., restaurant Masseria.

Wesley Wilson mentioned the dinner was meant to acknowledge journalists of coloration throughout White Home Correspondents dinner weekend.

“White Home Correspondents weekend is oftentimes not very numerous,” Wilson mentioned. “And we need to have fun variety and supply areas for the journalists who do the work each day to have fun it to be acknowledged, to convey group collectively.”

Phillip mentioned along with engaged on the momentum that already exists there should even be a give attention to protection that’s extra consultant of the nation.

“Not solely having folks of coloration telling the tales, however desirous about what we cowl, and ensuring that that’s consultant of the nation and the experiences of individuals on this nation,” Phillip mentioned.
“We have to construct on momentum as a result of generally we are able to take a step ahead and two steps backwards,” she added.

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