3: A NECESSARY CONVERSATION Part 2 The Happy Hour Newscast

Welcome to our first Happy Hour episode of the fall semester! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on the relationship between the SF State Black Students’ Union and the Golden Gate Xpress, social media slactivism, and how we experience reporting from certain identity roles.
Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in our second part of a conversation with Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences.
We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action.
Find this week’s stories and background below!

Nia’s stories:
Black entrepreneurs make way for racial equity in cannabis industry
https://goldengatexpress.org/93667/city/entrepreneurs-of-color-make-way-for-racial-equity-in-cannabis-industry/

Black Invincibility: The Myth
https://goldengatexpress.org/93062/latest/opinion/black-invincibility-the-myth/

Whitney’s stories:
BSU fundraiser unites campus groups to support Black businesses
https://goldengatexpress.org/93745/campus/bsu-fundraiser-unites-campus-groups-to-support-black-businesses/

SF State’s Black Student Union raises money for local Black-owned businesses
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eqGCDIH8HaTtOsfU-x6ucG-a69m1lV6ULu_LJy1hm4I/edit

Black Residents United in Housing hosts its first meeting of the semester to welcome back students
https://goldengatexpress.org/90911/campus/black-residents-united-in-housing-hosts-its-first-meeting-of-the-semester-to-welcome-back-students/

Background research (optional!):
SFSU Resource Guide, collected by the BSU
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x87NkMmRoyiEYnxWk0uI05d-HAk5Et-ogfZrNAwB0zk/edit#gid=0

Fighting inequity in the face of COVID-19
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/06/covid-fighting-inequity

Gater article from 1967
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7OACXHB3pruVF9ivULeDtaR266grrBh/view?usp=drivesdk

‘We still have a long way to go,’ say 1968 SF State activists
https://goldengatexpress.org/85419/latest/news/we-still-have-a-long-way-to-go-say-1968-sf-state-activists/

The fight for Ethnic Studies continues
https://goldengatexpress.org/89909/latest/news/the-fight-for-ethnic-studies-continues/

Promises unfulfilled for College of Ethnic Studies
https://goldengatexpress.org/78322/latest/news/promises-unfulfilled-for-college-of-ethnic-studies/

Bitch Media’s Editor in Chief Evette Dionne tweets about identity roles
https://twitter.com/freeblackgirl/status/1277617851902255104

Overcoming systemic racism begins in our own newsrooms
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/overcoming-systemic-racism-begins-in-our-own-newsrooms/