Alice, a magazine aimed at women, and Nineteen Fifty-Six, a magazine focused on Black lifestyle and culture, were suspended from The University of Alabama’s campus last week.
After the university broke the news to the two student magazines, an alumni group said it may be able to help.
“There’s a lot of alumni who are really fired up about this and really want to make sure these students don’t get deprived of what they deserve,” said Victor Luckerson, president and co-founder of Masthead. “So we’d be really excited to try to get these magazines printed for them in the spring, if that’s what the students want to do.”
Luckerson offers mentorship and support to journalism and communications graduates through his nonprofit, Masthead. He said each magazine costs about $7,500 to print 1,000 copies.
Meanwhile, more than 80 alumni said canceling the magazines is “the beginning of a slippery slope of censorship for all student media” in a letter to the editor of Crimson White, UA’s student n...
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