Op-Ed: AB 5 and COVID-19 are dire threats to California newspapers serving communities of color
Photo Courtesy Cal State Northridge Center for Photojournalism and Visual History
By Arturo Carmona, Sandy Close and Regina Wilson
In this moment of reckoning with systemic racial injustice, our country’s ethnic media outlets are serving an important role that mainstream media alone cannot fill. Throughout the years, these outlets have spoken for marginalized and vulnerable communities, serving to improve civic engagement and support cross-cultural communication within American society.
