On Dec. 11, as part of the Bay State Banner’s 60th Anniversary Forum and the second season of “GBH Amplifies,” publisher and editor Ron Mitchell will host “Democracy on the Line: Black Journalists & The Fight for a Free Press.”

This episode spotlights the alarming erosion of press freedom and the steep decline of Black community newsrooms.

The Banner, established in 1965, has borne witness to a pendulum swing, according to Mitchell, the co-owner of the paper. Throughout the decades the publication has marked the back-and-forth shift from progress to resistance for Boston’s Black and brown community.

Mitchell described the positive momentum of social and racial progress from the Civil Rights Movement, right up to when President Obama took office. But since then, he explained, that pendul

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