ABSTRACT
This chapter’s primary focus is to address how media have contributed to Black America’s understanding and appreciation of various Black social movements (BSMs). It seeks to address how movements of the 20th and 21st centuries have been demonized and marginalized by media to serve the purpose of White supremacy, uniformity, and conformity among Black communities. This chapter will include a critical and comparative view of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Movement, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. The social progress generated by these movements and their leaders’ high visibility will also be explored. This chapter also seeks to address the manner in which the media highlights “safe” and “responsible” aspects of Black social movements to the Black public to create and maintain groupthink and White supremacy.
