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21 of 24 Network Executive Producers Are Caucasian The paucity of diversity at the top ranks of the 61 network-owned television stations, reported last week...

Rangel Dissents From Jeremiah Wright Fixation It was a day in Sunday talk-show land where it seemed everyone was following the script, including Sen. Barack...

“White Preachers Are Given Leeway in Politics” Watch the video of Moyers’ essay Bill Moyers, whose interview last Friday of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright brought...

Timesman Was “Crushed” by Actions of “Friends” A lengthy look at the New York Times career of Gerald M. Boyd, who died a year ago...

Leader in News Industry to Become Opinion Editor Gilbert Bailón, a former executive editor of the Dallas Morning News who launched the paper’s Spanish-language offshoot,...

Originally published Oct. 11, 2007 Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program has created 2,800 murals. “Ridge on the Rise,” by Josh Sarantitis and Eric Okdehm, shows such...

7 Arrested in Raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery The son of the late Oakland Black Muslim leader Yusuf Bey was among seven people arrested...

A Tejano Filmmaker Says, “Give Me a Chance” In the war over “The War,” Hector Galan may hold the key. For months, Latino groups, supported...

Originally published Feb. 27, 2007 Paper Makes Hay With Sharpton-Thurmond Link The revelation that the Rev. Al Sharpton’s ancestors were owned by the late Sen....

Gerald Boyd Services Illustrate Obligation, Burden Eulogies: “Well, That’s One Hell of a Burden” Gerald M. Boyd’s former colleague Bernard Weinraub raised an issue worth...

Editor Told Gerald Boyd He’d Be Jackie Robinson The Joy and Pain of Being a First Following are selected edited tributes to Gerald M. Boyd,...