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Benjamin A. Davis is Chairman of the Department of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University. He is a board member emeritus for the Princeton Prize in Race Relations at Princeton University.
Ben served on the launch team for MSNBC.com as an Interactive Producer/editor. He was the Washington Editor for NPR and an Executive Producer for NPR’s Special Projects department. He also served on the Assignment Desk for ABC News in New York. He was a CBS reporter at WBTV News in Charlotte, N.C. In 1992 he was the inaugural Burton R. Benjamin Fellow at the University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Journalism.
Ben has won numerous awards for journalism, including two Alfred I. duPont awards for broadcast – one for reporting and the other as Executive Producer. He created a writing model, that builds on the century-old analog-based Inverted Pyramid, called the Digital Media Pyramid about which he wrote the e-book, The Digital Media Pyramid: A Guide for 21st Century Bloggers, Reporters and Citizen Journalists. Ben was a Fulbright Scholar Finalist in 2021. He graduated from Whittier College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and studied international relations at the University of Copenhagen. He taught journalism for 10 years at Rutgers University, three years at Florida A&M University, and seven years at California State University Northridge.
President Trump is reviving an Affirmative Action program that is as old as our constitutional republic. At the dawning of the United States, the privileged class bequeathed privileges to the privileged. Caucasian male property owners were not only at the top of the heap, they were the entire heap and everyone else was just plain old other.
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