How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North

How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North

Harry Belafonte was angry at Martin Luther King’s funeral. He lost his cool with a New York Times reporter, telling him “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate and distortion that the New York Times and other papers had helped create.” It wasn’t just Southerners who had laid the ground for King’s death—Northern newspapers and political leaders had distorted and demonized the civil rights leader for years as well, argued…