SNCC-affiliated protesters march in Montgomery, Ala., March 17, 1965 (Credit: Library of Congress, Glen Pearcy Collection) This year, the SNCC Legacy Project produced a video, “It’s Dark, But It’s Not Midnight.”

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By Tolu Olasoji

On April 30 — exactly 100 days into President Trump’s second term — veterans of the civil rights movement convened at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs to address a pressing question: How can journalists counter an administration actively reshaping historical narratives and dismantling racial equity initiatives?

 “When you control definitions, you control the narrative,” said Courtland Cox (pictured, by Deborah Barfield Berry/USA Today), chairman of the SNCC Legacy Project, an outgrowth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Cox set the tone for the hybrid Zoom-and-in-person Journal-isms Roundtable, “What the Civil Rights Movement Teaches Journalists About Dealing with Trump and Trumpism.”

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