Hero Of The Month (April): Shannon McDonald
by Brian A. Wilkins
5/31/2009 (links and photos updated December 16, 2018)
Temple University in Philadelphia, and apparently all others good journalism schools, require its students to write some sort of police story before graduation. Shannon McDonald was a senior this past February when she did a ride-along with Philadelphia cop William Thrasher. Ms. McDonald would learn and report something that is all too familiar to black and Latino Americans, but dismissed in Euro-American media as “the race card.”
Here is the gist of this whole situation: Ms. McDonald wrote an article for the Temple News, the