The Tip Sheet: 8/3

She loved cheerleading, but Journi Prewitt knew there was something more important she had to do. At age 16, she quit one of her favorite extracurriculars in order to save up money for a new philanthropic business venture. Prewitt, at the time a student at Power Center Academy High School, was unsatisfied with the depiction of African Americans in many forms of mainstream American media. Youngsters are particularly impressionable to what they see on TV and read in books, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Studies have shown there is a correlation between how youth and race are depicted in …