Malkia Cyril

Malkia Amala Cyril (born May 2, 1974) is a poet and activist who is best known as the executive director of the Center for Media Justice and for spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign, framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of "media democracy" and instead as a case of "media justice." Cyril is a co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.

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• Malkia cyril on the need for grassroots media justice campaigns in the us democracy now at ncmr
• Malkia cyril remembering her mother donald h mcgannon award acceptance
• References

Cyril's writings on media activism frequently appear in national publications such as Politico, the Huffington Post, and The Guardian Creative writing, including poetry and short-stories, have been published in anthologies such as Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers.

Cyril is the child of Janet Cyril, an activist in the Black Panther Party. Born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Cyril learned to read at the Liberation Bookstore in Harlem and refers to growing up in the party as "in and of itself a blessing."