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Nominee Includes Journalists in Unity Speech Sen. John Kerry told 5,000 delegates to the Unity convention in Washington this morning that “I will expand opportunities...

Third-Generation Yale Grad Surprises Unity Crowd President Bush told the Unity convention that he opposes so-called “legacy admissions” to colleges — the policy of favoring...

Event Could Host 10,000 Journalists in 2008 Registration for the Unity convention at the Washington Convention Center reached 8,158 this morning, exceeding projections, Unity president...

Village Voice Lays Off Thulani Davis, Tate Cuts Back The turmoil at New York’s Village Voice that last week claimed one of its two executive...

It’s Why Sports “Lags Behind Rest of the Newsroom” “The locker-room mentality in many sports departments is strong and resistant to change,” Bill Eichenberger, deputy...

3rd Person of Color in Moderator’s Role Gwen Ifill, managing editor of PBS’ “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,”...

Outrage at NBC Impersonation of Terror Suspects John Zito, an Italian from New York, and Tyrone Edwards, who police described as an Asian-Indian from Atlanta,...

Journos of Color Are “Future of the News Media” “How Long Must We Wait?: The Fight for Racial and Ethnic Equality in the American News...

(originally published Aug. 20, 2004) 1) Peggy Peterman Fought Inside and Outside Peggy Peterman spoke for many black columnists when, on a 1995 panel at...

Mississippian Says Film’s “Naive” Ending Is Implausible Police Mistake Photographer on Assignment for Suspect Commentators Weigh In on Obama’s Rough Patch Is Perry the Best...

Julian Bond Looks at Post-Brown White Houses News media commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision dutifully...

Survey Compares Staffs With Communities Here are the least-white communities with all-white newsrooms: The Independent, Gallup, N. M., circulation area is 93 percent nonwhite. The...