PCGVR Credible Messenger community manager Maxayn Gooden visited with students in Prof. Florence Madenga’s course: Black Journalism and Philadelphia, at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They discussed gun violence and the impact of systemic racism on Black and brown people and communities, and the sometimes harmful effects and lasting impact of news media reporting. Students asked how they can change narratives and be more humanistic when approaching family and friends who have lost a loved one. Former PCGVR intern Shannon Hodges is third from left.
Last year, Prof Madenga invited our team to discuss Reporting Gun Violence: Media, Ethics and Community Intervention at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn, thanks to an invitation from the Center for Media at Risk and the SAFELab at the Annenberg School.