About Me

Hi all! My name is Nyah Tari Marshall, I am a graduating senior, journalism major and African-American studies minor at Howard University. I am a multimedia journalist, that has contributed to several Howard affiliated news publications, including HU News Service, Truth Be Told, 101Magazine and WHBC Radio Station. I've interned at the Black News Channel, for the show Amplified, hosted by political strategist Aisha Mills. My reporting highlights include covering the White House, during Vice President Harris’ Project SERV announcement, and the judiciary senate hearings, during day three of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings.

Through studying at Howard, I became fascinated with the influences the early Black press had on the Black community.Like the Black press, I'm passionate about sharing other people’s stories, being an advocate for social change and to quote the founders of the first Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, I wish to plead my own cause. With this inspiration in mind, I founded UnitedStories, —a  journalism based media platform that will revive the roles of the early Black press by priding itself in advocacy journalism—and received the first runner up award at the 2021 Bison Pitch Competition for this business idea.

I'm currently working towards finalizing and publishing my Annenberg Honors thesis entitled “Media Fueled Black Protests Movements: The Early Black Press and Black Twitter as the Catalyst.” The primary goal of this study is to provide an overview of how Black Twitter has been using race-advocacy journalism to fuel and support the Black Lives Matter Movement similar to the way the early Black press used race-advocacy journalism to fuel the Civil Rights Movement. To learn more about my creative and journalistic work, visit https://inblackandwrite.school.blog.