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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...

Some Ask, What If It Had Been a White Journalist? When Rudolph Brewington, a Washington broadcast journalist turned government employee, saw an Associated Press story...

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 “Crossover” Artist Known for Playboy Work Robert “Buck” Brown, one of the first “crossover” African American cartoonists, whose work appeared in Playboy magazine over...

A “Crossover” Artist Known for Playboy Work Robert “Buck” Brown, one of the first “crossover” African American cartoonists, whose work appeared in Playboy magazine over...

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,...

Spike Lee Gift Starts Sports Journalism Program Spike Lee, New York Knicks fan, film director of “He Got Game” and more than 40 other flicks,...

Celebrating Journalism With a Jazz Sensibility Wynton Marsalis, left, artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center, blows a passionate rendition of Duke Ellington’s “Black and...