If you let a lie stand unchallenged, people will assume it's true. When news organizations refuse to call Hamas "terrorists," they become complicit in perpetuating a lie.
As a Polish American journalist and a media freedom advocate, I would like to end Black History Month by honoring an African American news reporter and writer. Homer Smith, Jr. (1909-1972) was a 20th-century fighter for freedom and human dignity who deserves to be admired and remembered by more people.