“Just in naming her company that, Judith was accomplishing her goal — which was an opportunity to teach people about a history that centered around civil rights,” Maurice Bisaillon, Juneteenth Productions’ executive producer, said.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Juneteenth Productions founder and Creative Director Judith McCray, center left, has a conversation with Al Rasho, left, Eva Rasho, center right, and Maurice Bisaillon outside her home in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago on June 18, 2023.
Last week, McCray, Juneteenth Productions’ CEO and creative director, was chosen as one of 10 recipients of the Field Foundation’saward. Bisaillon nominated McCray, his media maker mentor. The awards, centered in areas of art, justice and media/storytelling, are part of Field’s ongoing investment in individuals’ and organizations’ efforts to address racial justice and systemic bias in Chicago’s marginalized and underserved communities.
When McCray is not spearheading that, she’s teaching social justice reporting, news documentary, writing for broadcast and media ethics classes at DePaul University. She teaches the history of racism and injustice giving context to journalism students who may not have had it during their history or political science classes.
“It was no more thought than that,” McCray said. “I applied to Northwestern, because of Medill, and Drake University. I got accepted into both and got full rides. Journalism always felt the right fit — always asking questions to find out what other people had to say.” “That was everything I wanted,” McCray said. “It still is my most favorite moment. The name of the show was ‘At Issue.’ This was in the 1980s and affirmative action was changing again. I felt it was important to get people together on a panel to talk about how a very little change that had only gotten three lines of copy in the local newspaper was going to impact people’s lives. I loved that aha moment of watching people hear or see something I’d done.
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