Malkia Cyril Explained
Malkia Amala Devich-Cyril (born May 2, 1974)[1] is a poet and media activist best known for spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign,[2] framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of "media democracy" and instead as a case of "media justice." They are the executive director of the Center for Media Justice,[3] [4] and a co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.
Devich-Cyril's writings on media activism frequently appear in national publications such as Politico, the Huffington Post,[5] and The Guardian[6] Creative writing, including poetry and short-stories, have been published in anthologies such as Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing,[7] Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café,[8] and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers.
Devich-Cyril was the spouse of comedian and editor Alana Devich-Cyril, and child of Janet Cyril, an activist in the Black Panther Party.[9] Born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Cyril learned to read at the Liberation Bookstore in Harlem. They refer to growing up in the party as "in and of itself a blessing."[10]
Training
External links
- Biography on the website of the Center for Media Justice
Notes and References
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=AzNXZN5BBckC&pg=PA499. 499. Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe. Miguel . Algarin. Bob. Holman. Notes on the Poets. 15 August 1994. Macmillan . 9780805032574.
- Book: Wolfson, Todd . 2014 . In The History of Communication . Digital Rebellion : The Birth of the Cyber Left . Urbana [IL] . University of Illinois Press . 9780252038846 .
- Ball . Jared A. . 22 Mar 2014 . A New Apartheid: Media Consolidation and Black America . 10.5816/blackscholar.44.1.0047 . The Black Scholar . 44 . 1 . 47–57 . 10.1080/00064246.2014.11641211 . 147014274 .
- Dunbar-Hester . Christina . 2014 . "Being a Consistent Pain in the Ass": Politics and Epistemics in Media Democracy Work . Journal of Information Policy . 4 . 547–569 . 10.5325/jinfopoli.4.2014.0547 . free .
- List of Devich-Cyril's articles in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malkia-a-cyril/
- https://www.theguardian.com/profile/malkia-cyril List of Devich-Cyril's articles in The Guardian
- Book: 1995 . What Has yet to be Sung by Malkia Cyril . McKinley . Catherine E. . DeLaney . L. Joyce . Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing . registration . New York . Anchor Books .
- Cyril also appears in the documentaries Miss Representation and The 13th. Book: 1994 . Blues Tomorrow; Wait by Malkia Amala Cyril . Algarín . Miguel . Holman . Bob . Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café . registration . New York . H. Holt .
- News: Malkia Cyril, Center for Media Justice. 2016-04-04. 2012-01-01. Jessica Lum. San Francisco Chronicle.
- News: Lessons From Growing Up as a Black Panther 'Cub'. 2016-02-19. KQED News. 2016-04-04. Sandhya Dirks.
