In their ongoing series of interviews with first-place AAN award winners, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies this week posted an interview with JFP contributing editor/writer Ayana Taylor. This is my favorite comment of Ayana's, I think:
I don't think that it's my goal to expose racism, but I do think my goal is to expose the whole truth. I think that that's what the dailies miss, the whole picture, not just the thing that makes you look good.
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