Is Ryan Sorrell a journalist? He goes back and forth. Even after founding The Kansas City Defender, a Black nonprofit community media platform, Sorrell remains an organizer at heart.
But the Kansas City native has been researching the history of the radical Black press in the United States. “I’ve been reading people like Claudia Jones, who identified as a journalist,” Sorrell said. “Or Ida B. Wells, who identified as a journalist.” Learning more about the late Black female journalists and how they owned the label has made him more open to it.
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