Having grown up in South Central Los Angeles, Dr. Mary Hill-Wagner considers herself straight “outta” Compton. Viewed as one of L.A.’s roughest neighborhoods, Hill-Wagner was inspired by how USC alumnus John Singleton captured South Central in his 1991 film, Boyz n the Hood . But she always wondered: “Where were the women who grew up there? Where’s our book? Where’s our movie?”
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“If I am being sincere with you,” Kabir Sunmon told journalism major Nisha Venkat, “I am living in fear.” While an intern on BuzzFeed News’ immigration desk during their senior year, Venkat connected with Nigerian-born Sunmon and his wife Hester LaZard to shed light on their struggles. They were among hundreds of thousands of others waiting in limbo to obtain marriage-based green cards as the...
Journalist and USC Annenberg alumna Rachel Scott will deliver the keynote address at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s 2022 commencement ceremony on May 13.
One of the youngest correspondents in the history of broadcast network news — and one of the very few Black American...
Master’s student Brijea Daniel is on a mission to make a major impact in the media: humanizing marginalized communities by representing them authentically in corporate brands.
Her path to this specialized career opened when Daniel received the Diversity in Public Relations and Advertising Scholarship, without which, she said, it would not have been possible for her to attend USC...
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, results of a new research report reveal that for women in music, the last decade has been one of insignificant change in the recording studio.
The study , “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?” is the fifth annual report on the music...
In the face of information overload, the USC Annenberg community cultivates media and news literacy among K-12 students.
“I’m a girl, but I’m not weak.”
“I’m Asian, but I don’t play piano.”
“I’m Mexican, but I’m not an immigrant.”
These are the voices of South Los Angeles teens confronting stereotypes they face every day in the media. They documented their...
Amara Aguilar , associate professor of journalism, centers her teaching and practice on ensuring that stories of Latinx audiences are being served across a number of different platforms.
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