SPIKE LEE BOOSTS SPORTS JOURNALISM WITH NEW SCHOOL
Moviemaker SPIKE LEE has launched a new initiative at his former college in a bid to flood journalism with African-American sports writers.
The sports fan is a member of the board of trustees Morehouse College in Georgia - a private, historically black liberal arts school - and used his weight to prompt a new journalism school and curriculum.
Lee insists newspapers need more black sports writers to match the growing number of African-Americans playing professional sport.
He says, "We started the Morehouse College School of Journalism and Sports Journalism. We were trying to do it for the last seven years and we finally got it through.
"Right now there’s a dearth of representation of AfricanAmericans in the sports industry as far, as journalism is concerned.
"Seventy-five per cent of the players in the NFL (National Football League) are black, an even higher number of African Americans play basketball, but, if you look in the press box and the magazines and the newsrooms, you don’t have that representation now, so that’s what we want to do. It will start next semester. Registration is going on now."
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