https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/9/18216038/blackface-history-virginia-northam-racism-culture

This article is posted on Vox’s website. “Blackface isn’t just about the racism in America’s past. It’s also about the racism in America’s present”.

Article written by: P.R. Lockhart 

Summary: This article focuses on the history of blackface and the increasing number of blackface scandals. Several Virginia officials have recently come under fire for wearing blackface in the past. Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam’s college photo of blackface came to light earlier this month. Virginias Attorney General Mark Herring who is the third person in line for the role as governor, also admits to wearing blackface in college. The uses of blackface for entertainment has been used in American culture for almost two centuries. People would uses shoe polish to cover their faces and perform exaggerated performances to make racist fun of black people. It was a way of dehumanizing black people. People have every reason to be outraged by this no matter when it was done. The practice of wearing blackface has a deeply racist history against black people and should not be dismissed.

Print: The entire article is written in print. There are four still photos. Two photos of protestors rallying against Governor Northan. One of the posters saying “No Place For Blackface”.  Another photo of Governor Northan addressing the media.  Last is an older photo of someone in blackface with KKK members.

Audio: There is no audio-only media present.

Video: There is one YouTube video embedded of Al Jolson in a blackface Minstrel show. You can watch the video directly from the article page or open and watch through YouTube. There are options for you to share the video with others or to save and watch later.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=nhavaXOynO8

Interactivity: Visitors have direct links to share the article via twitter and facebook. Readers can click links to certain references featured in sentences throughout the article. For example, “Americans, who at the time were disenfranchised and denied basic rights under racial caste systems like Jim Crow laws (in fact, the name “Jim Crow” came from a minstrel character)”. You can click on the word Jim Crow and it brings you to another article explaining what it is and can view photos.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/25/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-suicide-bomb.html

Many young children in which most were 15 years and younger were being used as suicide bombers to go into huge crowds and blow themselves up without a say, after being kidnapped by militants in Nigeria.

Print: Twelve still photos of young girls were portrayed, throughout the story, with a short quote said by the girls underneath each photo. The story was told with lots of text and quotes that were stated from these children. Their experiences were summarized throughout the whole text.

Audio: no audio present

Video: no video present

Interactivity: Many pictures of the children were shown along with short quotes that were said by each individual to help create the mood of the story being told. There were also links at the end of the story which showed other stories that had to do with the suicide bombings and Boko Haram.