By Zara Abiog, Irene Ghosh, and Srivi Ramasubramanian | October 5, 2026 On September 24th, 2026 the CODE^SHIFT Lab welcomed Dr. Christine McWhorter to the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. A tenured professor of Broadcast Journalism from Howard University, Dr. McWhorter spoke about Critical Race Media Literacy (CRML), drawing on ideas from her new book, Building Critical Race Media: Countering the Narrative. Her talk touched on three main arcs: