Jayne Cubbage is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at Bowie State University, USA. She is author/editor of Critical Race Media Literacy (2022), The Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments (2018) and Developing Women Leaders in the Academy Through Enhanced Communication Strategies (2020). She is also co-author of Media Literacy for Diverse Audiences (2025).

Loren Saxton Coleman is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication, Culture, and Media Studies in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University, USA. She is the co-editor of the edited volume, Media, Myth, and Millennials: Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture (2019).

Cheryl D. Jenkins is Chair of the Mass Media Studies Department and Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at Talladega College, USA. She was a 2004 Mellon Fellow for the Salzburg (Austria) Seminar session on Ethics in News Reporting and Editing and received the National Association of Black Journalists Region VII Cheryl Smith Leadership Award in 2004. She is co-author and co-editor of the text Race and Media: Critical Perspectives (2020).