Acknowledging past wrongs is a good start. As a next step, news organizations should put an end to their complicity in promoting stereotypes, fear-mongering, and copaganda:
A dearth of stories about issues relevant and important to non-white communities, and a failure to feature Black residents in stories of achievement and inspiration, rather than crime and poverty, on a level proportionate to that of their white counterparts.
More on this in a NYT op-ed piece: