The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media

How did Jillian Michaels become a CNN-certified slavery scholar? The answer is in Joe Scarborough's text messages.

But perhaps the greatest contribution of the Negro press is this: it is one major voice of the conscience of our nation… And this is of vital importance. For there are millions of Americans who know American Negroes only through their press.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

On March 1, 1669, eight lord proprietors of the Carolina colony granted every white per…