In the Early 20th Century, Newspapers Were a Driving Force in Fueling Racial Hatred. The "Printing Hate" Project Explores the Impact

The Printing Hate project seeks to document the power white-owned newspapers used to wield harm against Black Americans in the early 1900s.

“The students involved in the Printing Hate project are examining newspapers published between 1865 and 1965, and using computational journalism methods to extract information from digital archives that contained more than 5,000 newspapers. What they are uncovering is scores of images and headlines that gave a nod to anti-Black terrorism and lynching and reinforced the race-based violence of the era by validating it as front page news.”- In the Early 20th Century, Newspapers Were a Driving Force in Fueling Racial Hatred. The "Printing Hate" Project Explores the Impact.

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