the kicker

A "CNN For Harlem"

May 18, 2009

Joseph Hayden explains to the New York Times what helped motivate him to start Still Here Harlem Productions, a news organization covering “every aspect of the community life of the marginalized and voiceless in Harlem:”

During last year’s presidential campaign, he said, he “stayed virtually in a state of rage because the mainstream media. They talked with such arrogance and such certitude about what the American people felt.”

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.