Test Your Media Knowledge
Can you identify the individuals at the top of the page? Here are some clues for the images, from left to right (answers below):
Photo 1: An educator, philosopher and writer, he was the founding editor of the Crisis, the official NAACP publication.
Photo 2: This print and broadcast journalist, who wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times devoted to the concerns of the Latino community, was killed in 1970 while covering a National Chicano Moratorium march in Los Angeles.
Photo 3: In 2004, he was named anchor/correspondent for ABC News Live, a 24-hour news network for broadband subscribers. Prior to this, he reported on technology news at San Francisco-based CNET.
Photo 4: Considered the first photography art critic, he created the critical model for the emerging art form of photography. He cautioned against retouching photographs, espoused the "straight negative" and predicted that photography would become a popular art form.
Photo 5: He was the foremost journalist to write about gay life and the AIDS epidemic and authored the book "And the Band Played On" which examined the making of the epidemic.
Photo 6: Born in 1876 on the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota, this writer and editor used her literary talent as a tool for Native American activism and published "The Indian's Awakening."
Photo 7: This influential Native American activist, writer and publisher published the monthly magazine Wassaja, in which he addressed injustices facing Native Americans.
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