here to discuss this is lola oganaki, david wilson, and tv and web personality amanda diva.ll of you have been in main stream outlets, whether nbc news, new york times. what is it like to be the raisin in the buttermilk? you can write that one down. what's that like? >> at nbc, i think there is definitely -- they get it a lot more. they understand it much better, that you need to be a little more diverse, particularly in the newsroom. nobody is perfect but there is a good mix and i'm in those big meetings when they're deciding what stories are going out. but i think it's very important, and i think that, you know, look, america is diverse as we've been talking about and i think it's important the newsroom reflects america. not just our skin but what we think. >> what's also interesting is all of you, in response to the lack of diversity, didn't just complain about it, you found new spaces to offer your vision of the world. how important has it been for this next generation of african-americans to craft new media spaces to articulate their vision? >> i think it's been incredi