The New York Amsterdam News Reporter

The New York Amsterdam News was started in 1909 with a yearning to tell the stories of people of color in New York City, and has grown to become one of the most important Black newspapers in the country. It reported on the fight for equality during the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement, and with a weekly paper and a robust news site, averaging 500,000 unique visitors a month, The New York Amsterdam News works to continue to magnify the issues that most deeply affect communities of color. This corps member helps us cover Black, immigrant and under-resourced communities in the New York region with respect to the epidemic of gun violence that plagues our community. They work within our Blacklight investigative unit on our new Beyond the Barrel of the Gun initiative. This groundbreaking project, the first of its kind at a legacy Black newspaper, seeks to explore the root causes of gun violence in Black and brown communities as well as the impact of this violence and what solutions are being put forth.