{"product_id":"truth-tellers-bonnie-newman-davis-9780578299358","title":"Truth Tellers: The Power and Presence of Black Women Journalists Since 1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first Black woman to run for vice president of the United States was Charlotta Bass - a journalist. That happened 70 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly four decades before her 1952 run for the vice presidency, Bass was the crusading editor and publisher of the California Eagle, the largest Black-owned newspaper on the West Coast. But those who write the history of that time have largely forgotten-or simply ignored-Bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonnie Newman Davis' book, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTruth Tellers: The Power and Presence of Black Women Journalists Since 1960\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, tells the stories of 24 Black women whose journalism careers spanned the last forty years of the 20th century. They are print and broadcast journalists and, like Bass, courageously bore the burden of being a Black woman in America's newsrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorma Adams-Wade to Lynne K. Varner, Wanda Lloyd to Barbara Ciara, and Patrice Gaines to Sandra Daye Hughes, the stories Davis tells are of Black women journalists who took on the challenges of being what W.E.B. DuBois called the \"two-ness\" of being an American and Black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bonnie Newman Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0578299356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578299358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bnd Institute of Media and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Bonnie Newman Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46546117951743,"sku":"9780578299358","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3fd86b1-6261-4cce-b5f8-661deeda4516.jpg?v=1738184169","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-tellers-bonnie-newman-davis-9780578299358","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}