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Part 2 of Richard Prince’s Feb. 10 Journal-ism Roundtable: The Roundtable Panelists

Greggory W. Morris
3 min readFeb 9, 2025

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Roundtable Panelists

Marie Arana, Peruvian American, is the former editor of the Washington Post’s Book World section, inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress and author of three books on Latin America. Her latest, “Latinoland: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority,” has a must-read chapter on “The Color Line,” full of eye-opening facts. Check it out of the library if you can.

Karen Juanita Carrillo, reporter for the New York Amsterdam News. “I cover this subject and have even written a book about it,” she says. On the book: “It’s ‘African American–Latino Relations in the 21st Century,’ I did some research into both communities and how they have been able to live together, and when they have not. You can see it here.

– Researching this book was interesting, it taught me a lot about the advocacy history of both communities.” Karen also wrote this month about the U.N.’s second declaration of an International Decade for People of African Descent, a gathering largely ignored by the mainstream media < https://bit.ly/42ssxVU>.

Torrance Latham, news editor at the Miami Herald, who is also v.p. of the South Florida chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. If any news…

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Greggory W. Morris
Greggory W. Morris

Written by Greggory W. Morris

Award Winning Assistant J-Professor, Hunter College/CUNY. Author, Writer. Blogs at blog.hunterword.com. Using Medium.com to test-drive writing projects.

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