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Originally published December 2007 All Writers Covering NBA Plan Exit as 43 Take Buyout Four veteran black sports journalists are taking a voluntary buyout offered...

Writers Have Long Questioned Sentencing Disparities The Supreme Court’s Monday decision that judges may impose lighter sentences for crack cocaine placed the conservative jurists in...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: About the Craft Anyone familiar with the history of African Americans in journalism knows the words, “We wish to plead our...

Premier documentarian St. Clair Bourne dies (see item below) Some Call It a Milestone, Others See Holes Sports columnists of color greeted former senator George...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: For Holiday Giving Last week, this column listed books by or about black journalists on the craft of journalism. Now we...

Further Slide Feared for Minority Ownership “Congressional opponents of media consolidation are greeting the FCC’s vote to ease its media-ownership rules as a call to...

Icon for Black Women to Focus on Mentoring Effort Susan L. Taylor, the driving force behind Essence magazine since she became its editor in chief...

Survey Finds Industry “Has a Problem” “‘We all know the US is becoming much more of a melting pot,’ says MaryLee Sachs, chairman of Hill...

Black Photog Gives Up Term in Light of Suspension A Chicago news cameraman who faces five days’ suspension without pay for using the “N” word...

Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Shot Taking Photos “A veteran Washington Post special correspondent was shot to death Sunday in southwest Baghdad while on assignment, the...

“Only One Reason” to Retain a Well-Known Litigator Stephen A. Smith, the outspoken Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist who was reassigned against his will to the...

Sharpton Says Citadel Should Meet With Journalists Don Imus‘ apparent new employer, Citadel Broadcasting, has been keeping the National Association of Black Journalists waiting since...