High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The representation of African-Americans in media has been a major concern in mainstream American culture. Representation, in itself, refers to the construction in any medium of aspects of "reality" such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. Media representation of minorities is not always seen in a positive light; the representation of African-Americans in particular may be propagating somewhat controversial and misconstrued images of what African-Americans represent. "Research on the portrayal of African-Americans in prime-time television from 1955 to 1986 found that only 6 percent of the characters were African-American, while 89 percent of the TV population was white. Among these African-American characters, 49 percent lacked a high school diploma and 47 percent were low in economic status." Since local news...