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My dear Latino USA listener, hi, it's Mariano Jose.

Today we're going to bring you something a little bit different.

A few weeks ago, I was part of the inaugural democracy summit at Howard University.

It was organized by the Center for Journalism and Democracy, founded by our colleague Nicole Hannah Jones, one of the leading journalists in the country covering racial injustice in the history of the United States.

Now, it was a really interesting summit looking at the dangers to our democracy and we wanted you to feel a part of this conversation too.

As part of the summit, I sat down in conversation with journalist Jody Rae Spotted Bear and historian Kathy Roberts Ford.

And we talked about the history of journalistic blind spots and how the mainstream media often fails to see the dangers of white nationalism in our mainstream news media.

All right, here's an edited version of the conversation moderated by professor Dr. Jason Johnson. Enjoy.

You know, in this country, there's a long history of blind spots when it comes to the way that mainstream journalism fails to see the dangers of white nationalism, the way it's coverage is often legitimized campaigns against marginalized people and the white regular people who push for these kinds of changes.

Jody Rae Spotted Bear, Kathy Roberts Ford and Maria Hanna-Hosa are going to discuss the US media's past complicity and the echoes we see today of the media's complicity in pushing white nationalist themes, whether we're talking about demographic economic anxiety, anti-CRT, immigrant and trans issues, and other anti-democratic forces that are given space and platform by quote unquote mainstream journalism.

So we'll start with everyone doing an introduction. Yes, hello, my name is Jody Rae Spotted Bear and I reported for the mainstream press for Lee Enterprises for a good part of more than a decade covering specifically American Indian issues across the United States.

And I have moved back to the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota where I've lived for about the last 10 years and just in hindsight of what was what I saw not happening in the press, I founded the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance and we also publish on online at Buffalo's Fire.

Hi, everyone, I'm so grateful to be here with you and learning from you and with you today. My name is Kathy Roberts Ford. I'm an historian of the press and professor in the journalism department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

I am here today as a representative for a really diverse and extraordinary group of scholars who worked with me to put together this new book called Journalism and Jim Crow, White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for New America.

And so my presence on this panel today is to be a voice for this group of dedicated historians who have excavated some troubling past of the role of journalism and building white supremacy in this country.

My name is Maria Ynohosa and it is great to be here with Nicole and everybody else. Oh my god, this is such a beautiful day. So well, it's a little cloudy but in freezing, but it's a really beautiful day to be here and I have my own nonprofit media company.

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