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Blacks Protest Cancellation of Jeremiah Wright Honor African American students and alumni at Northwestern University — including some graduates of its highly regarded journalism school...

Single Mom Linked Toyota to Community Groups Pat Tobin, a beloved public relations practitioner who co-founded the National Black Public Relations Society, died of cancer...

Journalists Play Role in Fact-Checking “History” It was three weeks ago at the Cannes Film Festival that filmmaker Spike Lee threw down the gauntlet. “Speaking...

“Meet the Press” Host Has Apparent Heart Attack “Tim Russert, NBC journalist and host of ‘Meet the Press’ collapsed at the NBC offices Friday and...

Gwen Ifill of PBS, discussing Tim Russert Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was one of the few journalists of color participating in the commentary....

ESPN, Jemele Hill Issue Apologies Over Column ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill was suspended Monday over a column that said, “Rooting for the Celtics is like...

Choice of Models Flips Pattern in Fashion Magazines For the July issue of Italian Vogue, Steven Meisel has photographed only black models. “In a reverse...

Black Entertainment Television has not aired its tamed-down version of NYOIL’s “Y’all Should All Get Lynched,” but its animated video, which accuses current rappers of...

Jock Says He Was Noting Unfairness of Arrests Radio host Don Imus opened his show Tuesday morning expressing amazement that some of his critics didn’t...

Group’s Second Survey Awards “F” on Gender A report on the diversity at newspaper sports departments and sports Web sites shows that “in 2008, 94...

Survey of Blacks Reports Continuing Dissatisfaction “Blacks are not satisfied with how they are portrayed by the media. Only 29 percent agree that the mainstream...

Tough Times Not Seen as Barrier to Broadening Pool Amid alarms that economic troubles are putting newsroom diversity on the back burner, Marcus Brauchli, the...