Roland Martin’s independent Black Star Network is thriving. He has over a million YouTube subscribers for his daily show Roland Martin Unfiltered and is a trusted messenger for news of importance to the African American community. Now he’s adding a pre-teen reporter to his roster who was a sensation at the recent Democratic National Convention.
Twelve-year-old Knowa DeBaraso was already a social media creator. The Atlanta-based reporter is homeschooled and showed his precocious knowledge and insight in interviews with My Pillow founder Mark Lindell (His viral retort to the so-called facts Lindell was spouting was ‘So your source is ‘trust me, bro?’) and as a guest on Sky News where he told anchor Mark Austin that kids don’t get news from legacy media, or as he put it “old-school news.”
DeBaraso said social media is critical not just to correct disinformation but to provide new information to young people.
As part of a large contingent of influencers who were given enormous access at …