Author : richard

Susan Taylor Protests School’s No-Braids Policy Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., used the phrase “much ado about a hairdo” to describe the brouhaha that ensued after...

For 10 Years, Led St. Louis Post-Dispatch William Woo, who as editor and editorial page editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was said to be...

Two Black Journalists Get Key Beats The New York Times has assigned two black journalists to key beats – at the State Department and as...

Targets Have Included Washington Notables Robin Givhan of the Washington Post today won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism “for her witty, closely observed essays that...

Journalists Push Back at Critic Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed, the African American social critic and novelist, took on several leading journalists of color in a...

Columnist Wendi Thomas Quits Before She Starts Columnist Wendi C. Thomas, who last month bid farewell to readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal and moved...

Newspapers Falling Below Benchmarks for Progress The number of journalists of color in newspaper newsrooms grew slightly last year, with the greatest growth among Hispanics...

U.S. Agency Working With Unity on Public Meeting As the news media fail to measure up to their stated hopes for progress on diversity and...

N.Y. Outlet Unlikely to Restore Black Programming New York City’s WLIB-AM, the black-owned station that tossed out Caribbean-oriented programming to host Air America, is parting...

Police Union Strikes Back Over Hidden Cameras Seventeen years ago — two years before the beating of Rodney King—an NBC-TV camera crew secretly recorded a...

Duke U. Accusation Raises Coverage Questions An African American college student working as an exotic dancer says she was raped and beaten by white members...

First African American Since Carole Simpson Russ Mitchell has been named anchor of the Sunday edition of the “CBS Evening News” effective immediately, Sean McManus,...