Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot doubled down on her policy granting interviews only to “black and brown” journalists overnight on Thursday, calling the Chicago press corps “overwhelmingly white” in a Twitter thread and in a letter addressed to Chicago’s media.
“In a two-page letter to the media, Lightfoot, the first Black woman as well as the first openly gay mayor in Chicago’s history, praised her own 2019 election for ‘breaking barriers’ and took a shot at media organizations in the city for not adequately addressing ‘institutionalized racism’ in their ranks. Her decision to temporarily speak only to Black and Brown reporters, she said, was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion,” Fox News reported late Wednesday.
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