Marquis Lupton was tired of what he was seeing, and what he wasnât seeing. Lupton, 37, of Lancaster, was working as a broadcast news reporter in Atlantic City and Philadelphia when he found himself covering stories that often skewed to the negative side of the Black and Brown communities. âI was pulled off a bunch of great human interest stories to cover another fire, another shooting, another police involved incident, and the majority of the time I was covering men that looked like me,â Lupton says.
Lupton says often, when heâd pitch positive stories about the Black community to his editors, heâd receive replies like, âWeâll get to those kinds of stories during Black History Month.â