Sharing the stories of community media makers in Philadelphia
Doctoral candidate Antoine Haywood is documenting the work and lives of Black, Indigenous, and people of color media makers in Philadelphia.
Antoine Haywood fell in love with public access media the day he walked into the studios of People TV, the public access television channel in Atlanta, Georgia.
“I came in and was just totally swept away,” he says. “It was really about seeing other Black people in a space, in a community media center, making content and working collaboratively.”
(Image: Kyle Cassidy/courtesy of the Annenberg School for Communication)
Haywood, now a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, hasn’t lost his enthusiasm for public access media over the two decades that have passed since he first entered the now-defunct People TV.
As part of his dissertation research, he is recording the stories of Black, Indigenous, and people of color media makers at Philadelphia Community Access Media (PhillyCAM), where he directed community engagement programs for eight years.
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