Malkia Cyril
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Malkia Cyril | |
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| Born | Malkia Amala Cyril 1974 |
| Nationality | Black/Afro-Caribbean |
| Education | Sarah Lawrence College Rockwood Leadership Institute Fellow Hunt Alternatives Prime Movers Fellow |
| Occupation(s) | Executive Director and founder, Center for Media Justice. Co-founder, Media Action Grassroots Network. |
Malkia Amala Cyril (born 1974) is a poet and activist who is best known as the executive director of the Center for Media Justice and spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign,[1] framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of "media democracy" and instead as a case of "media justice."[2][3] Cyril is a co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.
Cyril's writings on media activism frequently appear in national publications such as Politico, the Huffington Post,[4] and The Guardian[5] Creative writing, including poetry and short-stories, have been published in anthologies such as Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing,[6] Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café,[7] and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers.
References
- ^ Wolfson, Todd (2014). "Digital Rebellion : The Birth of the Cyber Left". In The History of Communication. Urbana [IL]: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252038846.
- ^ Ball, Jared A. (22 Mar 2014). "A New Apartheid: Media Consolidation and Black America". The Black Scholar. 44 (1): 47–57. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ Dunbar-Hester, Christina (2014). ""Being a Consistent Pain in the Ass": Politics and Epistemics in Media Democracy Work". Journal of Information Policy. 4: 547–569. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ List of Cyril's articles in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malkia-a-cyril/
- ^ List of Cyril's articles in The Guardian
- ^ McKinley, Catherine E.; DeLaney, L. Joyce, eds. (1995). "What Has yet to be Sung by Malkia Cyril". Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing. New York: Anchor Books.
- ^ Algarín, Miguel; Holman, Bob, eds. (1994). "Blues Tomorrow; Wait by Malkia Amala Cyril". Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. New York: H. Holt.
External links
- Center for Media Justice website
- Media Action Grassroots Network (a project of the Center for Media Justice)