Communities: Community Organization and Resource Bibliography

Multicultural Organizations, Individuals and Resources

• All Girl Radio was created by several African American teenage girls from Massachusetts who decided they were tired of music that denigrated African American women and created their own radio station.

• American Indian Registry for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles published a directory of Native American performing arts professionals in the late 1990s. And in 2001, after acknowledging that "Native Americans are virtually invisible on TV," CBS and NBC held talent showcases in major cities across North America to strengthen their databases of Aboriginal performers.
• Asian American Journalists Association 
• Asian American Justice Center (formerly the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium)  
• Asian Media Watch is an "independent non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to promoting a diverse, fair, and balanced portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in the media and entertainment industry."
• Asian Pacific American Media Coalition publishes an annual report card on Television Diversity. 
• Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow Mark Lloyd is an expert on communications policy, including universal service, media concentration and diversity. 
• Center for Asian American Media (formerly the National Asian American Telecommunications Association) was founded "to counter the scarcity of images of Asians in film and television, correct the often distorted portrayals of them in the mainstream media, and create opportunities for the full participation of Asian American producers in the public media."
• Center for Native American Radio, a centralized service bureau that will provide technical, fundraising and programmatic support to nearly 30 public radio stations serving Native American listeners.
• Children Now
• Civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund  Its mission is to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.
• Fordham University professor Dr. Clara Rodriguez
• George Washington University, Prof. Robert Entman, author of "The Black Image in the White Mind," has gathered scholarship on how the media impact race relations.
• Indiantech.org 
• Industryears is a new generation think tank dedicated to promoted truth and accountability in the media.
• Latino Issues Forum
• Media Action Network for Asian-Americans
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Minority Telecommunications Development Program, part of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Communications Business Opportunities, work to increase opportunity for minority-owned communications businesses. 
• National Association of Black Journalists focuses on challenges and opportunities facing African-American journalists and provides a number of key resources, including their black journalist census project.
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• National Association of Latino Independent Producers
• National Association of Minority Media Executives is an association formed to bring together managers and executives of color that work in media and media-related fields.
• National Congress of American Indians National Congress of American Indians has taken a leadership role in the development of telecommunications policy through the release of "Connecting Indian Country: Tribally-Driven Telecommunications Policy."
• National Hispanic Media Coalition a group of Latinos making efforts to fix the telecommunications landscape by appealing to legislators for change.
• National Rainbow Coalition
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• National Urban League is dedicated to the promotion of economic development and opportunity for African-Americans and has monitored media impacts on African-Americans.
• Native Networking Policy Center
• Organization of Black Screenwriters provides training, experience, resources and industry exposure in order to develop great writers that don’t compromise the image of people of color in their work.
• Poynter Online, a best practices site for journalists, provide a wide array of journalism diversity resources. 
• Radio and Television News Directors Association compiles employment statistics on minorities and women in the news media industry.
• Radio and Television News Directors Association produces a variety of reports with employment data on minorities in broadcast media.
• Screen Actors Guild
• St. John’s University, Prof. Leonard Baynes is a noted scholar and expert on race and media.
• Third World Newsreel fosters the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.
• United Church of Christ that is a resource for people interested in organizing to promote a more diverse media.
• UNITY: Journalists of Color is an organization bringing together journalists to advocate for “fair and accurate” media coverage for people of color, and for increased diversity in the media profession.
• University of Indiana Black Film Archive is a repository of African-American film and related materials.

Faith Organizations, Individuals and Resources

• Center for Media Literacy has a page focused on ways that faith communities can teach media literacy.
• Christian Media Literacy Institute provides materials to assist parents and educators in teaching media literacy in light of Christian Values.
• FaithfulAmerica.org is an ecumenical project focused on providing a policy and action resource for progressive communities.
• International Study Commission on Media, Religion & Culture has put together a list of organizations focusing on media and religion.
• Islam Online 
• Jewish Media Resources is a website focused on equipping journalists to properly cover Torah Judaism.
• Media Guide for Journalists Covering Islam focuses on providing resources to help journalists provide accurate information when covering Islam and Muslims in the United States.
• National Religious Broadcasters represents 1,400 member organizations.
• Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc. advocates on behalf of populations which have been underserved in mass media, concentrating on the areas of children’s programming, cable rates and programming, employment opportunities, and prohibition of redlining.
• Pew Center for Religion and Media at New York University provides resources, events, a newsletter and information concerning the most recent academic publications in this area.
• Religion Online has a number of articles on the intersection of religion and media.
• Religious Newswriter Association provides support and information for journalists who cover the religion beat, providing links to various religious media resources and headlines that provide religious perspectives on news of the day.

Disabilities Organizations, Individuals and Resources

• Association for the Blind strongly advocates for widespread access to hi-speed internet, or broadband because it can be the only means for blind and visually impaired people to obtain necessary information. 
• Civilrights.org, a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, recently released a report on civil rights implications of the "digital divide," including specific recommendations for meeting the needs of disabled communities.
• Gallaudet University links the rise of the deaf press to the way that the deaf community was tied together through shared language – American Sign Language.  The first deaf school paper, called the Little Paper, was founded in 1849.  Many of these papers are available on microfilm at Galludet.  Gallaudet also links to internet organizations and resources on deafness.
• Multiple-Sclerosis.org points out that some inroads are being made, listing several examples of disabled actors cast in high-profile roles.
• National Association for the Deaf, along with several other disabled rights organizations, including the American Association of People with Disabilities, American Council of the Blind and World Institute on Disability, include the following among their technology priorities.
• National Center for Accessible Media works with the Corporation of Public Broadcasting to make media more accessible for all Americans at work, at school, in the community and at home.
• National Telecommunications and Information Association compiles statistics on Internet use by various demographic groups, including the various disabled communities.
• Non-Traditional Casting Project works to improve opportunities for disabled actors and actors of color through advocacy, education and the development of programs to help producers, directors and casting directors to take a more inclusive approach to casting.
• Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. website’s Disabled Media Policy Timeline.  
• Towson University has a Media History and Disability bibliography.