Robin Hayes
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organizations included in this study. Second, these black
newspapers filtered this information through the African
American community’s master injustice frame of civil
rights, which supports the attainment of equal citizenship
rights for African Americans. Finally, the Afro, Amsterdam
and Defender validated the work and claims of African
independence organizations more frequently than those of
black power organizations because African nationalist
movements were most often portrayed as having philosophies
and goals that fell within the African American community’s
master injustice frame.
These findings support the theory
of black channels, which argues institutions indigenous to
the African diaspora facilitate mutual identification
between their audiences and black social movements by using
their communities’ master injustice frames to provide
information about these movements and validate the work and
claims of social movements in other nations in the African
diaspora.
Method
This study uses the research methods of in-depth
interview, content analysis and critical analysis to
examine how the Afro-American, Amsterdam News and Defender
represented African nationalist movements in Algeria,
Convention