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Founded by @nhannahjones . We are a first-of-its kind academic institution committed to strengthening historically-informed, pro-democracy journalism @howardu .
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"American democracy is threatened by theocracy." -Anthea Butler
@AntheaButler
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"Howard is where I am supposed to be in order to provide for more journalist of color and to invest in black institutions" -
@nhannahjones
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You cannot understand the fight for democracy in America without understanding how race and white nationalism are at the center of it all.
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We are now welcoming professor, Ta-Nehisi Coates to the stage to share a brief reflection on his experience with Nikole, why they came to Howard together, and why this center is important to Howard University.
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“At a time when democracy is under attack, this affirmative action ruling strikes a blow at multiracial democracy by ensuring many of our universities will look less like America.” – CJD Founder
@NHannahJones
for
@DiverseIssues
. Read:
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#DemocracySummit
panelist Carol Anderson: “One thing journalists need to do when they see cases like Milligan—don’t frame it as a win for the Democrats, frame it as a win for democracy because that’s what it is.”
Live:
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Major thank you to
@BarackObama
for supporting the Center even though he couldn’t be with us in person today.
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Check out the programming for the
#DemocracySummit
. Plan accordingly! Livestream link here:
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We are excited to announce the official launch of the Center for Journalism & Democracy on Nov. 15. We’re bringing together historians, democracy experts, election officials & leaders in journalism for our 1st
#DemocracySummit
. Register at the link in our bio!
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There is a long history of journalistic blindspots when it comes to the way “mainstream” journalism fails to see the dangers of white nationalism. Our next panel ‘The Call Is Coming From Inside The House’ will speak directly to these issues.
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Support HBCU Journalism -
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Carol Anderson - “Gerrymandering is how you rig the system. It’s been around for a long time. What we are dealing with now is extreme partisan gerrymandering.”
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We are so close to welcoming this amazing line up of guests for the International Black Writers Festival, including CJD Founder
@nhannahjones
!
We are about one month away from the return of the International Black Writers Festival. We are so excited for the four-day event where will be able to engage with our speakers, students, and guests. You can view the tentative preliminary on our website:
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"We need to accept the culture of balance and covering both sides. Our mandate as journalists is to choose TRUTH over POWER." -
@nhannahjones
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The Democracy Summit 2023 will cover state and local threats to American democracy, from gerrymandering and voter protection to book bans and censorship in school curricula. You can hear from these voices and more on Nov. 14, 2023 at Howard University.
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"If we focus on beliefs we are missing the very nature of ideology, which is about practices." - Jason Stanley
@jasonintrator
#CJDDemocracySummit
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We are proud to announce the newest cohort of HBCU journalism students recipients of our conference support awards for
@IRE_NICAR
. Look for their fresh faces at
#IRE23
!
For more information about the Center’s forthcoming opportunities, stay tuned with our socials!
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We are about begin our
#CJDDemocracySummit
. We will unpack present threats to American democracy, learn about the history that shaped this moment, and confront the journalism profession’s central concepts of fact, objectivity and fairness.
Livestream:
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
@JodiRave
Kathy Roberts Ford
@krforde
and Maria Hinojosa
@Maria_Hinojosa
are now on stage for their ‘The Call Is Coming From Inside The House’ session to discuss U.S. media’s past complicity and the echoes we see today in coverage.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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"Don't make false equivalencies, pay attention to the world and its patterns, there is an attention economy, and there is no such thing as neutral vocabulary." - Jason Stanley
@jasonintrator
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"Censorship is a political movement and you begin to see the same players in different players in different places orchestrating book bans again and again." - Tracie D. Hall, former executive director of the American Library Association
#DemocracySummit
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"We have to speak clearly and directly to where the threats to pro-democracy are coming from." -Astead Herndon
@asteadwesley
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This morning
@nhannahjones
wrapped up welcome remarks to Summit attendees with the clarion call, ‘Neutrality’ is an abdication of our duty as journalists.
#DemocracySummit
#DemocracySummit2023
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The U.S. did not have true democracy until 1965 with the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and democracy has always been fragile and contested in the US.
#CJDDemocracySummit
#democracy
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Keesha Middlemass: “We are seeing the recycling of laws that are based on Jim Crow patterns of exclusion.”
“Anti-Democracy in State Houses” at the
#DemocracySummit
is live:
#DemocracySummit2023
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Up next at the
#DemocracySummit
— Florida Man: A Case Study in Eroding Democracy.
Watch live:
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We have Greg Carr
@AfricanaCarr
Anthea Butler
@AntheaButler
and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@KeeangaYamahtta
speaking on the next panel ‘Foundational Cracks’ to provide the historical context behind democracy in the US.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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"It is vital that news institutions come to terms with their role in history." -Kathy Roberts Ford
@krforde
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#DemocracySummit
TN state legislator Justin Jones on being expelled: “as movement politicians, we must disrupt the plantation politics in our state.”
Live now: Anti-Democracy in State Houses
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We’re excited to announce the 15 outstanding journalists who will be joining us for this year's Data Institute, co-sponsored by
@C4JDHowardU
&
@IBWellsSociety
!
The intensive two-week training program begins today!
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"Propaganda is about changing the way that people think." - Ruth Ben-Ghiat
@ruthbenghiat
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To celebrate our launch, we’re hosting a
#DemocracySummit
on Nov. 15 for journalists to unpack present threats to American democracy, learn about the history that shaped this moment, and confront the journalism profession’s central concepts of fact, objectivity and fairness.
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"When identity is tied to partisanship, the stakes change and people stop doing the thing that they have taken an oath to do." - Avery Davis-Roberts
@AveryElections
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The ‘Threats To Democracy’ panel is about to begin featuring Sherrilyn Ifill
@SIfill_
Avery Davis-Roberts
@AveryElections
and Rachel Orey
@RachelOrey
.
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We’re 2 weeks out from
#Midterms2022
. This is how democracy can be defended and uplifted. Via
@MAD_Democracy
@FixMediaNow
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"We have to remember what our job is as journalists, and our job is accurate documentation..." - Wesley Lowery
@WesleyLowery
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Happening now at the
#DemocracySummit
at Howard University: Anti-Democracy in State Houses.
Watch live:
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#DemocracySummit
panelist Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward: “We need journalists holding movement leaders and political leaders to account.”
Watch “Foundations of Gerrymandering”
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"If we don't talk about and know our history...we cant undo its damage." -Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@KeeangaYamahtta
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Welcome to
@HowardU
! More than a year in the making, today Professor
@nhannahjones
launches the Center for Journalism & Democracy to inspire and strengthen pro-democracy journalism.
#CJDDemocracySummit
.
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@nhannahjones
just stopped by the venue to make sure it’s giving everything it needs to for tomorrow’s
#DemocracySummit
. Will you be there in person or tuning in to the livestream? Let us know.
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How can journalists fight the battle of misinformation and disinformation? Share your thoughts 👇🏾
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Hear from Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
Wesley Lowery
@WesleyLowery
Cassandra Jaramillo
@cassandrajar
and Astead Herndon
@asteadwesley
in our final session ‘The Mandate for Pro-Democracy Journalism’
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Next, we’ll hear about the tradition of America’s Black press from historian Brandon Nightingale of the
@HowardU
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center!
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Do you know about the Black Press digitization project and what the Black press can teach us about pro-democracy journalism?
#journalism
#prodemocracy
#blackpress
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Thanks to everyone who applied to the 2023 Data Institute!
We’ve sent out our notification emails. If you applied and don't see a notification email, please check your spam folder. If it's not there either, email team
@cjddatainstitute
.org and we'll investigate. Thanks!
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“We have to be journalistic activists because that’s what the moment calls for.” - Nehemiah Frank, founding editor of The Black Wall Street Times
Watch:
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We are ALMOST at capacity for LIVE
#DemocracySummit
attendance. Register now to attend in person before livestream is the only way to go! !
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This is awesome!
today
@prisonjourn
launched the Prison Newspaper Project -- a first of its kind digital directory of operational prison newspapers and magazines.
As of January 2023, 22 prison newspapers are in operation across 11 states. 3 of them debuted in 2022.
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@AveryElections
"There are three primary threats to democracy that I think about often 1.Concentration of power in state legislature 2.The montage of threats an harassments against state/local election officials 3.The manufacturing of chaos in our election admin system"
-Rachel Orey
@RachelOrey
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"If you do not look like a representative newsroom, you can not practice excellence in your journalism." -Maria Hinojosa
@Maria_Hinojosa
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#DemocracySummit2023
registration is LIVE! We will focus on local and state-level threats to democracy, such as gerrymandering, the removal of elected officials from public office and book and curriculum bans & more. Visit the link in our bio for more on registration.
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Session two, ‘Fuel: How Propaganda Works’ is about to start and we are ready to examine how U.S. media succumbs to propaganda. We’ll hear from Jason Stanley
@jasonintrator
and Ruth Ben-Ghiat
@ruthbenghiat
.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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One of our key activities for 2023 is the launching of our faculty grants program for journalism professors at
@howard1867
. We announced this program at a reception that we held for journalism faculty.
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We hope you all enjoyed our first-ever
#CJDDemocracySummit
and we hope we can have you again next year!
Learn more about our work here:
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"When we talk about a Center for Journalism & Democracy I don't know where else you would want to be besides of an HBCU. Because the tradition of black journalism is truth telling." -Ta-Nehisi Coates
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"As journalists we have to be students of history and bring that history into our contemporary conversations." -Wesley Lowery
@WesleyLowery
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Do not forget to tag us on any and all tweets from this year’s Democracy Summit! Also, use
#CJDDemocracySummit
in your tweets to join the conversation!
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It’s official, the Data Institute class of ‘23 has concluded and we at the Center for Journalism & Democracy want to give a big thank you to our professionals and everyone who contributed to making this possible.
Stay tuned later in the week to see our official recap!
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The travel scholarship deadline for the
#DemocracySummit2023
has been extended to Oct. 19! Check your eligibility and submit a registration request today:
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Announcing our Visiting Professorship Program slated to begin Spring 2024.
#InvestigativeJournalism
#HBCUs
#Journalism
#Democracy
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On screen at the
#DemocracySummit
— Sherif Mansour highlights the risks journalists are facing in Gaza.
Sherif will be in conversation with
@nhannahjones
on Press Freedom & The Israel-Gaza Conflict.
Watch live:
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We are excited to host journalists, academics, political experts and community leaders at the
#DemocracySummit
next month. Six days left to submit a registration request!
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This year's powerhouse speakers and panelists at the Democracy Summit 2023 represent a range of backgrounds and expertise in media, politics, education and technology. Stay tuned as we announce more speakers the next week and don't forget to register with the link in our bio!
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A democracy requires access to all books!
Toni Morrison
@IamGMJohnson
@nhannahjones
@Karnythia
@KalynnBayron
Maya Angelou
@DrIbram
@WriteinBK
Alice Walker
@jesmimi
Ibi Zoboi
@JackieWoodson
@KielyBrendan
@JasonReynolds83
13 Banned Books You Should Be Reading this
#BlackHistoryMonth
by
@ineyekomo
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#DemocracySummit2023
registration is live and waiting on you. We have limited travel and lodging support for certain groups. More info at
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Welcome to the stage our speaker for today’s first presentation ‘How Democracies Die.’ Steven Levitsky. He will share research on eroding democracies abroad and illuminate the signs that American democracy is faltering.
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"When mainstream political parties tolerate or condone violent extremists.
#Democracy
is in trouble" -Steven Levitsky
#CJDDemocracySummit
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The
#DemocracySummit2023
is TOMORROW. Are you coming? If not, you can stream it all day. Link in bio!
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Work for a small or medium sized journalism outlet? This summit is for you and we are offering travel assistance. Register at .
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Thank you,
@HowardU
professor, Ta-Nehisi Coates for sharing your reflection.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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Our founder,
@nhannahjones
, will discuss the
#DemocracySummit
with
@TheRevAl
on
@PoliticsNation
tonight at 5p.
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Work for a Black owned media outlet? If so, we’re providing travel assistance to the
#DemocracySummit
. Register at
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The Center for Journalism & Democracy launches today and we are excited to be hosting our first-ever Democracy Summit in honor of this momentous occasion! Thank you
@nhannahjones
and
@HowardU
#CJDDemocracySummit
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Tomorrow we will examine what journalists can & should do in an effort to be pro-democratic in their reporting. A free press requires a democracy. Tomorrow we examine how to protect democracy at our launch event, the
#DemocracySummit
.
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We are still accepting applications for our inaugural Visiting Professorship in Investigative or Data Journalism at Howard University. More details are at the link in our bio. Like and share!
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Thank you so much to our speakers
@AfricanaCarr
@AntheaButler
and
@KeeangaYamahtta
for that impactful session!
#CJDDemocracySummit
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We had a blast at last year’s Democracy Summit and are excited to continue this year to discuss issues such as the implications of artificial intelligence and the state of Florida’s anti-democratic intervention in schools and local politics. Check out some more of our speakers:
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Please welcome Sherrilyn Ifill
@SIfill_
, Avery Davis-Roberts
@AveryElections
and Rachel Orey
@RachelOrey
to the stage! An incredible panel is up next!
#CJDDemocracySummit
#Democracy
#Journalism
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Save the Date: Our second annual Democracy Summit will take place on Nov. 14, 2023. The Democracy Summit gathers journalists and democracy experts to unpack threats to American democracy and to heed the urgent call to defend it.
Registration will open later this month!
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Check out the Center’s winter newsletter with the latest scholarship opportunities and upcoming programs for students and professional journalists!
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Special thank you to
@HowardU
and
@nhannahjones
for providing journalists the space to come together and discuss
#democracy
in
#journalism
.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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#CJDFridayFunFact
: Did you know that the first National Association of Black Journalist (
#NABJ
) had its first inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 12, 1975. Commencing with 44 founding members, today, over 4,000 journalist
are respected members of the organization!
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What a great way to start the
#CJDDemocracySummit
! Thank you Steven Levitsky for opening up the summit with such a unique perspective and engaging conversation.
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"The psychology of 'great replacement theory' is a mechanism for making people feel fearful and anxious" - Jason Stanley
@jasonintrator
#CJDDemocracySummit
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Justin Jones: “We need journalists who will check power and put people in uncomfortable positions when they are harming the most vulnerable.”
Don’t miss this conversation at the
#DemocracySummit
here at Howard. Watch live!
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Excited to have you all join us!
⚡️TOMORROW, November 14:
@C4JDHowardU
will host its
#DemocracySummit2023
at
@HowardU
in Washington, D.C.
@CPJMENA
's program coordinator, Sherif Mansour, will be joining the panel, "Press Freedom and the Israel-Gaza Conflict" at 12:15 p.m. EST, with
@nhannahjones
More info:
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Glad you all made it!
When you & your students end up on the same flight!
@MorehouseJS
(including
@Morehouse
,
@spelman
@cau
students) and
@propublica
(I’m here & my colleague
@cassandrajar
speaking) among those in D.C. to talk Journalism & Democracy
@HowardU
‘s
@C4JDHowardU
w
@nikolehannahjones
.
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Thank you to our wonderful moderators today! You were awesome and led our discussions gracefully. We truly appreciate you for taking the time.
#CJDDemocracySummit
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Our last panel was 🔥 ! Thanks to our amazing speakers Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
, Wesley Lowery
@WesleyLowery
, Cassandra Jaramillo
@cassandrajar
and Astead Herndon
@asteadwesley
!
#CJDDemocracySummit
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Thank you
@ruthbenghiat
and
@jasonintrator
for sharing your perspective and thoughtful insight.
#CJDDemocracySummit
#Democracy
#Journalism
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