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Green also noted that only about eight media organizations covered the press conference—most of them local news outlets.

While 11 percent of Stoneman Douglas High School students are black, they’ve been largely absent from the national news coverage of the school shooting and the wave of activism that has followed since.

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At a recent event, one of the more well-known faces of the post-Parkland gun-reform movement, student David Hogg, told Axios co-founder Mike Allen that the biggest mistake the media made in covering the Parkland shooting was not giving his black classmates a voice.

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The Rev. Rosalina Osgood, a member of the Broward County School Board, told the Miami Herald that she doesn’t want students of color “to be angry and feel that they’re being ignored.”

“I don’t think anybody’s intentionally excluding them, but nobody’s intentionally including them, either,” she said.

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