Hi, I'm Nailabudu, and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

It's Monday, October 18th, and today we're focusing on the history of newspapers and its role in racist violence.

Today marks the beginning of an ambitious student journalism project that's had students at universities going through reams and reams of newspapers from Reconstruction through the 1960s.

What have they been looking for?

These students have been investigating the role American newspapers played in promoting lynchings and other racist violence across a century.

The project's called printing hate. And who better to force a reckoning of journalism's pasts than the journalists of its future?

Washington Post writer, Dine Brown, has been working with the students on this project.

She's also an associate

professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, and her reporting on the 1921 Tulsa

Massacre inspired the project. In a moment, Danine Brown on printing hate and why it matters.

And we're joined now by Washington Post writer Danine Brown, whose coverage of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre was the inspiration for the project called Printing Hate.

Hi, Dene.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

Can you start by telling us how you understand the scope and goals of this reporting project?

This project was inspired by my reporting, particularly about the 1921 Tulsa

of Race Massacre. That massacre was sparked by a headline that ran in the Tulsa Tribune on May 31,

1921, that said Nab Negro for attacking girl in an elevator.

After that headline ran on the Tulsa Tribune, again in 1921, historians say it essentially sent a whistle call to members of the clan and members of the white mob and Tulsa to descend on the courthouse to essentially lynch Dick Rowland, the black teenager

who was arrested and falsely accused of this attack. In my reporting on Tulsa, I just, I kept thinking,

how many other headlines are out there that sparked lynchings and racial terror massacres of black Americans.

Just how deep and how wide is this in history?

So I remember during the June 2020, when protests erupted across the world and across the

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