Mainstream media missing in action in inner cities
There is power in the pen, so much power that many get intoxicated with it, so much power that journalists are professionally obliged to use it rightly and justly. That most of the world's underprivileged are suffering in silence today is a direct result of media indifference. Bankole Thompson believes journalists and broadcasters should also tell the story of people at the bottom of the socio-political and economic ladder as exemplified by Joseph Pulitzer.

What's Bankole up to?
Bankole Thompson spoke at an int'l conference at Morehouse College Atlanta on June 13-15 2007.

Bankole Thompson (first left) chats with Dr. Leon Hesser,
Nobel Peace laureate Norman Borlaug's biographer and retired senior State Department official, and his wife, Dr. Florence Hesser, retired George Washington University professor.