Gilliam, Dorothy Butler
Summary: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street, Hachette Book Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIAM, DOROTHY BUTLER GILFarrell, Mary Cronk
Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LERRezaian, Jason
Summary: In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even served as a guide for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunderstanding, but soon realized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B REZAIAN REZMolloy, Shannon
Summary: This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland. It was a year in which I started to discover who I was, and deeply hated what was revealed. It was a year in which I had my first crush and first devastating heartbreak. It was a year of torment, bullying and betrayal - not just at the hands of my peers, but by adults...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020