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Her roots are in D.C. A graduate of McKinley Tech, Angela Owens has seen this city grow into the booming city it is today. She has also watched its people changing and growing. She also came along at a time when TV stations were concerned with minority hiring and making Blacks visual in the media.
At present that trend has changed, and Owens is not especially optimistic about the opportunities for Blacks in broadcasting.
"The doors are not opened as wide as they were in the early 70s," says Owens. "The climate has changed. There was the push after the Kerner Commission Report, and people by and large have forgotten. It's my opinion that Black people are still getting what jobs there are because of affirmative action. The times are meaner than they used to be. There is no feeling that wrongs of the past need to be righted any longer."
Owens is among a growing list of Blacks in broadcast media who feel this way. Many feel there is an unspoken rule in management that Blacks are too uppity now and need to be slapped back into their places. Owens feels the number of Blacks in the business now...