ReconAfrica Responds to National Geographic s Hit Piece by Environmental Activists newswire.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newswire.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted on 2646
Nowhere in the world is there a national park system like America’s. Each park is a jewel and, collectively, they are a national treasure. America’s national parks are famous the world over. Places like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon are not just names but touchstones that evoke clear images and treasured memories. For Americans, these iconic places are part of the cultural DNA. They are so important to who and what America is that the country would not be the same without them. In 2022, join narrator and executive producer Garth Brooks (No. 1-selling solo artist in U.S. History) and National Geographic on an extraordinary venture across world-famous and lesser-known
Chairman Gary Knell quits National Geographic Partners adgully.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from adgully.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
National Geographic was ahead of the curve.
While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of color in the US and abroad.
“Until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging them beyond laborers or domestic workers,” Goldberg wrote in an editor’s letter introducing the issue. “Meanwhile it pictured ‘natives’ elsewhere as exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages every type of cliché.”