African American Women In Media, In America

African American women in the news business is scarce but essential. African American women need to represented as reporters or anchors or producers and even news director or manager. Either way it goes there are that many black women working for the media. Media tells what is going in their community, state and/or America but the media isn't represented in the best ways it can be. Women are getting seen more as reporters and anchors but African American women are still lagging behind. African American people in general are not being seen as much as they should be and not in a negative way, for example black men always in trouble with the law. A classmate in my online journalism class did a project over African American hair. I found her project quite interesting because I am an African American and so I knew what see was talking about on a person basis. She was saying how women especially have to have their hair a certain way to "go along with the norm". Black women needs to stick with thaone particular hair still, straight, not nappy or fro out. To put braids in their hair most likely wouldn't would be acceptable. To have their hair natural is pushing the button. Black women and men have to look the norm in order to have some success whether in the news market or in anything else where their looks are important. The same message wouldn't be heard if a black woman has her hair natural instead of by a black woman with straight hair. We need to evolve with time.