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When newsroom diversity becomes tokenism

I am the only Black reporter at this newspaper and they always assign me to cover stories about race and crime and I am tired of being pigeonholed but afraid to push back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're always handed the race-and-crime stories, and you're tired of being boxed in but scared to speak up.

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