Representation of minority groups in mainstream media is essential to ensure diversity in content and in the make-up and structures of media bodies themselves. However, the constant struggles of media organizations to survive in competitive marketplaces where priorities are to reach maximum audiences and advertisers can be hampered.

1. BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Addressing
Minority Human
Rights Concerns
With Insight
Representation of minority
groups in mainstream media

2. "Two in three Black
Americans don’t feel
they see their stories
represented on-
screen"

4. Representation of minority
groups in mainstream media is
essential to ensure diversity in
content and in the make-up
and structures of media
bodies themselves. However,
the constant struggles of
media organizations to survive
in competitive marketplaces
where priorities are to reach
maximum audiences and
advertisers can be hampered.
Some believe media goals can
be best achieved by catering
MINORITY HUMAN RIGHTS

6. to the needs and interests of
majority populations and that
is why minority interests,
voices and opinions are
marginalized. Let's take a look
at minority interests, minority
voices and minority opinions
about: POVERTY, EQUALITY
PANDEMICS, PEACEFUL
ASSEMBLY AND PROTESTS.
And why are these opposite
minority interests, voices and
opinions are often muted in
times of crisis?
MINORITY HUMAN RIGHTS

8. Oklahoma because we’re not
prosperous. It persists because
we’re not leveraging those public
and private resources to achieve
prosperity that can be widely
shared." Women and people of
color in Oklahoma are more likely
to face economic disadvantages.
They’ve been repeatedly
disenfranchised and targeted
with violence. For a family or
household of 4 persons living in
one of the 48 contiguous states
or the District of Columbia, the
3.18.2021. OKLAHOMAPOLICY.ORG

9. poverty guideline for '21 is
$26.5K. The Committee on the
Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, in its general
recommendation No. 35 ('13) on
combating racist hate speech,
stressed the importance of
media pluralism to counter racist
hate speech and highlighted that
it entails "facilitation of access to
and ownership of media by
minority, indigenous and other
groups, including media in their
own languages" (para. 41).
3.18.2021. OKLAHOMAPOLICY.ORG

10. Expressing a genuine concern for
the well-being of other people
regardless of race is key to
combating poverty.
EQUALITY
Nativism and xenophobia refer to
the preference for native‐born
people of a given society and the
fear of foreigners or “others”
considered to be outsiders
based on racial, ethnic, or
national origin or religion.
3.18.2021. OKLAHOMAPOLICY.ORG

12. "NRG polled almost 1400
Americans between the
ages of 18 and 54 who are
heavily engaged with pop
culture.
The study shows that 91%
of them overall believe
media has the power and
ability to influence
society"

14. Majority of recent Black Lives
Matter demonstrations have
been non-violent, according to a
report by the Armed Conflict
Location & Event Data Project
(ACLED), which analyzed protests
that took place in the United
States from May 26 to August
22, 2020. The New York Times
reports, "The verdict, which could
send the former officer, Derek
Chauvin, to prison for decades,
was a rare rebuke of police
violence, following case after
RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY

16. world. It is not about the USA or
other countries. Some pundits
argue that recognized legitimate
policy adaptations would
undermine the influence of the
USA in the HRC and beyond.
Former police officer, Derek
Chauvin, is one example of how
human rights policy can be
enforced no matter who violates
the law.
RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY

19. "The supply for inclusive
content is not meeting the
demand. From all participants
there is interest in content
that features mixed-race
characters or families (86%),
content that has Black
characters from all types of
economic backgrounds."

21. Academic-community
partnerships and statewide task
forces represent solid starting
points for the development of
strategic and comprehensive
planning.
Translating core values
associated with equity can be
easily achieved through
Community Action Agencies
(CAAs) across the country.
According to a report to the
Commonwealth Environment
Protection Agency by Jim Falk.
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES

22. Community Action Agencies
(CAAs) annually assist 17 million
low-income Americans. Whether
it’s a Head Start program,
weatherization, job training,
housing, food bank, energy
assistance, financial education,
or any of the other 40-plus
distinct programs, CAAs work to
make America a better place to
live.
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES

23. The last several years have seen
discrimination, hate, and white
supremacist ideology shift from
the fringes of society to
mainstream social media and
political and social discourse.
Targeted groups are
heterogenous. By studying a
heterogeneous array of target
HATE MOTIVATED
BEHAVIOR

25. groups, we can draw broader
conclusions about prejudice writ
large. Documented factors
associated with the commission
of hate-motivated behavior are
largely demographic. Studying a
heterogeneous array of target
groups opens up new questions
related to morality, cognitive
HATE MOTIVATED
BEHAVIOR

27. processing, and perceived
discrimination.
Understanding constructs that
consistently predict prejudice
across a wide array of groups
with consistent predictors
explains other individual-level
characteristics, and also
suggests that prejudice,
HATE MOTIVATED
BEHAVIOR

29. depending on the group, can be
a motivating force preserving the
status quo or prompting social
change.
Legal and law enforcement
solutions include hate crime
laws, community-based policing,
and federal tracking. People
express more prejudice when
resources are scarce.
EFFICACY

31. Since 1948, the World Health
Organization (WHO) has defined
health as being “not only the
absence of disease and infirmity,
but also the presence of
physical, mental, and social well-
being.”
Many Americans have
unfortunately suffered from the
impact of chronic illness and
diseases. These diseases can
affect people not only physically,
COVID-19 PANDEMIC

33. but also mentally, as contracting
and living with a disease can alter
the affected person's
perspective on life. The
Oklahoma Department of Health
COVID-19 Newsroom gives
Oklahomans information about
(SARS-CoV-2) through an online
situation update report.
Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2)” is the pandemic illness
with several possible modes of
COVID-19 PANDEMIC

35. transmission for SARS-CoV-2,
including contact, droplet,
airborne, fomite, fecal-oral,
bloodborne, mother-to-child, and
animal-to-human transmission.
Infection with SARS-CoV-2
primarily causes respiratory
illness ranging from mild disease
to severe disease and death, and
some people infected with the
virus never develop symptoms.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC

36. "Creating content about
Black characters and
characters of color, some of
the most important things
are to tell untold stories and
create multi-dimensional and
complex characters in any
genre"

38. The term quality of life can be
defined as the physical,
psychological, social, and
spiritual domains of health that
are influenced by a person's
experiences, beliefs,
expectations, and perceptions.
The sum of all these factors is an
attitude toward health and a
belief about one's capacity to
cope, which is unique to each
individual.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC

40. "Greater use of
experimental research
design and application of
existing public health
approaches (for example,
bystander interventions)
represent promising next
steps in hate-motivated
behavior prevention."
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF
HEALTH AFFAIRS.ORG

41. Psychological and other health-
focused interventions include
education and training programs,
public awareness campaigns,
measurement development,
perspective taking,
counterfactual thinking,
intergroup contact approaches,
and social-emotional learning.
With few exceptions such as
intergroup contact, hate-
motivated behavior reduction
efforts are largely unproven to
date.
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

43. Unfortunately, law enforcement
from Portland to New York to
Austin has all too often met
demonstrators with excessive,
indiscriminate, and dangerous
abuse of so called less-lethal
weapons.
For example, law enforcement
shot at least 115 people in the
head with kinetic impact
projectiles (rubber bullets and
other projectiles)
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

44. across the United States during
the first two months of the
George Floyd protests,
according to a visual analysis
conducted by our team at
Physicians for Human Rights
(PHR). And this is likely an
undercount. Law enforcement
agents shooting crowd-control
weapons at protestors’ heads is
indeed a global phenomenon.
Moving forward, public health
efforts addressing hate-
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

46. motivated behavior should tackle
intervention across structural,
interpersonal, and individual
levels.
Regardless of one’s politics, we
should all value being able to
peacefully assemble or express
ourselves without the possibility
of losing an eye or having our
skull fractured by these
weapons. As Portland journalist
and organizer Mac Smiff, who is
Black, keenly put it:
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

48. “We came out here dressed in T-
shirts and twirling Hula-Hoops
and stuff, and they started
gassing us, so we came back
with respirators, and they started
shooting us, so we came back
with vests, and they started
aiming for the head, so we
started wearing helmets, and
now they call us terrorists. Who’s
escalating this? It’s not us.”
Indeed, it was law enforcement –
particularly the federal agents –
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY

50. who escalated the situation in the
Portland streets. Crowd-control
weapons and attacks on health
care across the globe, we’ve
seen how excessive force
corrodes the human rights that
are foundational to any
democracy. Crowd-control
weapons should be an absolute
last resort, only used when
dealing with genuine and
imminent public safety threats,
and after all other means for de-
escalation have been exhausted.
PEACEFUL PROTESTS

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54. "Better distribution opportunities
for Black creators are needed,
according to 82% of participants
(91% of Black participants), and
there also should be specific hiring
efforts among Black creatives,
according to 78% of participants
(90% of Black participants)."

55. Our Sources are open access and online
“About.” Black Lives Matter,
blacklivesmatter.com/about. Accessed 13 Jan. 2021.
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Cramer Richard C. Fording Phyllis Gerstenfeld Andre
Kehn Jason Marsden Cynthia Deitle Angela King
Shelley Smart Matt R. Nobles
Openglobalrights.org "Protesting for racial justice, met
with excessive force" Donna McKay & Michele Heisler
Special Procedures' report, (Hate speech and
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