Without a focus on youth identity, the representation of teenagers, especially youth of color, is missing from the ...

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Attiah sat down with The Objective to discuss objectivity and Black representation at WaPo and mainstream media at large.

A collage of photos from MLK50 and ProPublica’s series Profiting from the Poor: Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Debt Collection. All photos taken by and courtesy of Andrea Morales. Many ...

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

Image edits by Parker Molloy on a chart via Media Matters. This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report ...

A protester holds up a sign at a dance protest celebrating trans youth at the White House in 2017. Ted Eytan/Creative Commons. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. How did the New York Times ...

Graphics courtesy of The Disabled Project and The Trans Law Center. But policies focused on eliminating people viewed as “less fit” aren’t just limited to the current administration. The burgeoning ...

Sometimes you find yourself in the right moment and time to make a difference. Caitlin Dickerson started at NPR as an intern and moved on to report for the newsroom, where she won numerous awards for ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a 1964 press conference at Gracie Mansion in New York. Photo by Dick DeMarsico, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. People ...