Black Panther is part of a wave of entertainment that’s expanding the scope of black narratives

edian Household Income (Real), Dollars ACS 2018 41,361 70,642 59% -2.5Median Male Earnings, Dollars, Weekly ACS 2018 735 1,002 73% 3.4Median Female Earnings, Dollars, Weekly ACS 2018 654 817 80% -1.6POVERTY (0.15)Population Living Below Poverty Line, % ACS 2018 20.8 8.1 39% -2.9Population Living Below 50% of Poverty Line, % ACS 2018 9.4 3.9 41% -0.3Population Living Below 125% of Poverty Line, % ACS 2018 27.1 10.9 40% -3.7Population Living Below Poverty Line (Under 18), % CPS ASEC 2018 25.0 8.5 34% -1.1Population Living Below Poverty Line (65 and Older), % CPS ASEC 2018 18.9 7.4 39% 1.2EMPLOYMENT ISSUES (0.20)Unemployment Rate, % BLS 2019 6.1 3.3 54% 3.4Unemployment Rate: Male, % BLS 2019 6.6 3.3 50% 3.1Unemployment Rate: Female, % BLS 2019 5.6 3.2 57% 2.1Unemployment Rate Persons Ages 16–19, % BLS 2019 20.7 11.5 56% 4.7Percent Not in Workforce: Ages 16–19, % BLS 2019 69.9 62.5 89% -0.9Percent Not in Workforce: Ages 16 and Older, % BLS 2019 37.5 37.0 99% 0.0Labor Force Participation Rate, % BLS 2019 62.5 63.0 99% 0.0 LFPR 16–19, % BLS 2019 30.1 37.5 80% -1.3 LFPR 20–24, % BLS 2019 70.4 73.9 95% 0.6 LFPR Over 25: Less Than High School Grad., % BLS 2019 37.3 48.1 78% -0.5 LFPR Over 25: High School Grad., No College, % BLS 2019 58.9 57.4 103% -2.5TOTAL WEIGHTED INDEX59.2%CATEGORY WEIGHT30%

African Americans are disproportionately represented in news stories about poverty, and these stories tend to paint a picture that is particularly likely to reinforce stereotypes and make it hard to identify with black males. For example, low-income blacks in news stories are more likely to live in slums or urban areas, as opposed to rural areas, than real-world averages would suggest; more likely be entirely unemployed and “idle” (as opposed to working); and so forth. The idle black male on the street corner is not the “true face” of poverty in America, but he is the dominant one in media portrayal. (Clawson & Trice, 2000, updated and confirmed in Clawson et al., 2007)

Additionally, the news media habitually reinforced the myth that black fathers are less involved in their children's lives. We found that photos and videos in the study showed black mothers, white mothers and white fathers interacting with their children at the same rate.

The media has been one of the greatest weapons of mass destruction against the black community for many years. Just like there are different types of guns like pistols, assault rifles, shotguns, and sniper rifles, media is presented in forms as well. Print media, books, magazines, radio, music, the internet, video games, and the biggest format of all, social media, are all the different types of artilleries used against Black folks on how we are portrayed.

For this study, NRG polled almost 1400 Americans between the ages of 18 and 54 who are heavily engaged with pop culture. The study shows that 91% of them overall believe media has the power and ability to influence society, and 77% of them reported that they believed the way Black Americans, specifically, are portrayed in the media will influence people’s perceptions of real-life Black Americans. (When looking at the Black Americans polled, 87% believe portrayal influences real-world perception.) Digging further, 66% of everyone polled believes the media currently perpetuates negative stereotypes of Black people, while 83% of Black Americans polled believe that.

Sarah Baartman’s reality as an attraction to behold, gawk at, and prod at manifests itself today in every hyper-sexualized fetishist remark veiled as a compliment, and every depiction of my big black ass as either comedic fodder or the accessory of the moment.

Black Twitter is an informal community largely consisting of African-American users on the social network Twitter focused on issues of interest to the black community in the United States.[1][2][3][4] Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... [and are] proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes."[5]

Racial Identity in Online Spaces: Social Media’s Impact on Students of Color

The FBI said it has stopped using the "Black Identity Extremist" tag and acknowledged that white supremacist violence is the biggest terrorist threat this country faces. https://trib.al/OepGw2S

Or maybe — here’s a thought — find a similar article from some other site that hasn’t been called a white supremacist organization by half a dozen mainstream groups. Because no matter what you think of the article, funneling friends and family to a site that has published such sentences as “When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears” is not ethical — or likely to put you in the best light.