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Photo Credit: Buffalo State Communication Department /  Facebook COVID-19 has impacted everyone, but those in the media field face an additional challenge: technology. “The biggest problem we have in media production is that we’re not able to hand out the equipment to everybody we’d like to,” said Meg Knowles, an associate professor of media production at the State University of New York at Buffalo State College Department of Communication. “In advanced classes they’re borrowing cameras, but in a class like basic production, where normally you’d be using cameras and recording equipment from our department, we’re not doing that this year.” All of the Communication 312 Basic Media Production classes are 100 percent online, which means that the students are “either dependent on a camera they may happen to have or using an app like FiLMiC pro.” “Learning the technology aspect of journalism is harder because I can no longer conveniently go to classmates or teachers for tips and warnings...

Photo Credit: Andre Chung “After taking this grueling journey to the dirt road of antiracism, humanity can come upon the clearing of a potential future: an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty,” argues Dr. Ibram X. Kendi , in his book, “How to Be an Antiracist.” “It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people.”  It’s no wonder that 2020 was called the year that everyone wanted to say goodbye to: · the start of the COVID-19 pandemic · the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the deaths of unarmed Black people by police such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, both incidents of which happened within a little over two months apart of each other · the presidential election Racial tensions were and still are at its peak in the U.S. The pandemic has no doubt pried people’s eyes open on the importance of racial equity and addressing issues of systemic racism. Despite the pandemic, the St...