Malkia Cyril

Malkia Cyril
Born Malkia Amala Cyril
1974
Nationality Black/Afro-Caribbean
Education Sarah Lawrence College Rockwood Leadership Institute Fellow Hunt Alternatives Prime Movers Fellow

Malkia Amala Cyril (born 1974) is a poet and activist who is best known as the executive director of the Center for Media Justice and spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign,[1] framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of "media democracy" and instead as a case of "media justice."[2][3] Cyril is a co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.

Cyril's writings on media activism frequently appear in national publications such as Politico, the Huffington Post,[4] and The Guardian[5] Creative writing, including poetry and short-stories, have been published in anthologies such as Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing,[6] Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café,[7] and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers.

References

  1. ↑ Wolfson, Todd (2014). "Digital Rebellion : The Birth of the Cyber Left". In The History of Communication. Urbana [IL]: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252038846.
  2. ↑ Ball, Jared A. (22 Mar 2014). "A New Apartheid: Media Consolidation and Black America". The Black Scholar 44 (1): 47–57. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Dunbar-Hester, Christina (2014). ""Being a Consistent Pain in the Ass": Politics and Epistemics in Media Democracy Work". Journal of Information Policy 4: 547–569. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  4. ↑ List of Cyril's articles in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malkia-a-cyril/
  5. ↑ List of Cyril's articles in The Guardian
  6. ↑ McKinley, Catherine E.; DeLaney, L. Joyce, eds. (1995). "What Has yet to be Sung by Malkia Cyril". Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing. New York: Anchor Books.
  7. ↑ Algarín, Miguel; Holman, Bob, eds. (1994). "Blues Tomorrow; Wait by Malkia Amala Cyril". Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. New York: H. Holt.

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