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Tyler Perry Film No. 1 for Second Weekend “It was one of those rare Oscar weekends when not one nominated movie made it into the...

Renaissance Man Known for Gritty Photo Essays “Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and...

Icon Is Accorded Hometown Hero Status Gordon Parks might have been known internationally as a photographer, film director and artist, but in Kansas City, Mo.,...

Wanted: Reporters for “the Story of Their Lives” Six months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, television stations on the Gulf Coast are still reeling, news...

Dropping 12 Papers Puts Some of Color in Jeopardy The acquisition of Knight Ridder by the McClatchy Co., announced today, combines two companies with stated...

People of Color Not Considering Knight Papers In 1983, Robert C. Maynard became the first African American to own a mainstream daily newspaper when the...

On Diversity Goal, Auburn, NYU Found Lacking When the accrediting committee for journalism programs met two weekends ago, all four of the programs before it...

N.Y. Times Helps Shake “Fatigue” Over Issue The front-page story in the New York Times on Monday, “Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn,” “really...

Bar Raised on Goal of Parity With Community “The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade,” D’Vera...

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,...