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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/blackness-fake-news/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/michelle-m-wright/">Michelle M. Wright</a></p>
<p>With the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/04/middlebury/hAfpA1Hquh7DIS1doiKbhJ/story.html">recent protests at Middlebury</a> College over the invitation of Charles Murray as a speaker — and the ensuing <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-03-06/the-dismal-and-violent-middlebury-college-protest-of-charles-murray">protests about the protest</a> — one key point seems to have been missed. Professor Murray is not too terribly different from Donald Trump: both propagate fake news. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/blackness-fake-news/#more-3743" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Blackness and Fake News

Michelle M. Wright is Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University and a Public Voices Fellow.