i am karen holmes ward. people challenging the current affairs in scholarship from political news coverage to a lack of diversity in hollywood, mainstream media has come under fire for not including diverse images. collins followed one out how young people are rejecting mainstream media their own hands. >> students at process are police involved debts in missouri and new york. -- deaths in missouri and new york. >> we haven' people and seeing how they feel about it. >> i heard about it but i was not aware. afterward, seeing and hearing the stories of different people whose fathers, cousins, and brothers were shot, it really affected them. >> i don' t understand what people refuse to acknowledge this about race. >> saying i can' t breathe from when they choked the guy. they are saying a lot. pretty much saying things should not be this way. there is supposed to be quality. >> there is the quality for storytelling. >> at press there is time for tv producers to share their stories. >> walking down the street, a

i am karen holmes ward should welcome to "cityline." we bring you this coverage as part of the ongoing coverage of the opiate crisis. it is no luggage just an epidemic sweeping across the commonwealth. governor charlie baker has declared a state of emergency and has vowed to change the way massachusetts treats and thinks janet wu brought us this report. janet: the governor' s announcement began with janice mcgrory, who lost her daughter four years ago. >> she never took that first still thinking in a very short period of time she would be shooting heroin. she did not know about addiction. i did not know about the dangers of description drugs. janet: governor baker' s task force recommends $35 billion in funding for the fiscal year, including prescription monitoring by pharmacists and adding 100 treatment beds by this time next year. >> opioid likelihood of our children, siblings, relatives, and friends one person at a time. janet: massachusetts has a record of 6600 overdose deaths from opioids, 1000 just the start of 2015. health care p

i am karen holmes ward. welcome to "cityline." 2015 saw a social justice movement like no other. charges of police brutality and an epidemic of officer involved shootings dropped the nation. no indictments returned from grand jury' s in the case of ice left communities demoralized. as grassroots efforts group in the struggle to affect systemic change. there is one outlet or some feel they have been making headway, the internet. please be advised, some of the images you will see may be graphic for some viewers. >> do you think that culture is under attack? -- black culture is under attack? >> [laughter] of course, right? yeah, i do think black culture is under attack. >> that is a provocative question. i think like people are under attack. karen: according to "the washington post," only nine days separated each police shooting and death of an unarmed black man as of august 2015. mappingpo liceviolence.o states this roll call of names in the spotlight has produced accurate proportions. we know them . 18-year-old michael brown on the streets of ferguson, missouri. 25-year-old freddi

i am karen holmes ward. welcome to "cityline." the nation celebrates the life of dr. martin luther king, junior, and we recall some of his sayings that illustrate the social justice movements in history and education. there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, conscience tells him it is right. that quote from dr. martin luther king, junior, could have been voiced a century earlier by another leader who was at the forefront of the admit to abolish slavery, frederick douglass. in an illustrated biography, most photographed americans, the others examine frederick douglass' use of the van new medium of photography to break down stereotypes of african-americans. harvard professor of african american studies john stoffer joins us in the studios today. welcome. how are you? first of all, funny to think that frederick douglass was the most photographed person of his time am even more than abraham lincoln? >> more than ligon, grant, custard, walt whitman, more than any of his peers, which 19th century america, his influence,

i am karen holmes ward. welcome to "cityline." with over 54 million hispanics in the country, latinos are the fastest-growing ethnic population in the united states. in boston, latinos make up almost 18% of the population. for decades, the hispanic population in the city has been growing, and as more latinos call the city home, they are politically. in 1965, while fidel castro was the prime minister of cuba, alberto left his island home in search of more opportunity. >> i came basically looking for freedom. it was not opportunity for me back in the island. so i decided to come here to be free. karen: several years in several jobs later, he detected an opportunity to do something no one was doing at the time. he saw latino populations in lawrence and boston growing at a rapid pace. but there was a disconnect within latinos across those communities. >> i didn' t know what was going on in those cities. so it was no communication between them. what a good idea to have the newspaper that can cover all karen: he would be surprised to fi