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NABJ launches scholarship in honor of Houston trans journalist Monica Roberts
HOUSTON โ On Transgender Day of Visibility, a worldwide celebration of transgender and non-binary people, the National Association of Black Journalists announced a new scholarship named after transgender journalist and advocate Monica Roberts. The Monica Roberts LGBTQ+ Task Force Scholarship will support Black LGBTQ+ students studying journalism, mass communications, or otherwise interested in reporting and storytelling, the organization announced. The scholarship was created by the task forceโs co-chairs, Treโvell Anderson and Femi Redwood, and recently unanimously approved by the NABJ board of directors. โWhen our industry finally stops misgendering trans folks and hyper-focusing on our traumas, weโll be able to trace such a Promised Land to the efforts of Monica Roberts,โ said co-chair Anderson. AdโSince I joined Treโvell as co-chair of this Task Force, weโve wanted to honor Monica for her work,โ said co-chair Redwood.