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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...

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s Eulogy for Ed Bradley Text of the eulogy for CBS newsman Ed Bradley delivered Nov. 21 at Riverside Church in New York...

Newsman Was Among Most Recognized Journalists Ed Bradley, arguably the most visible black journalist of his generation and among the most recognizable television journalists of...

Election Night coverage plans of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, NBC, NPR and PBS Editor Resigns After Refusing to Cut...

Panel Urges One-Year Accreditation for J-School Asserting that “critics, some of whom are black, are jealous of our program,” Dean Tony Brown and the top...

After Deficit, New Director Gets Stabilizing Task The National Association of Black Journalists announced the appointment of a new executive director last night as its...

N.C. Panel Wants Redress for Anti-Black Violence A 600-page report on anti-black riots in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898 recommends that newspapers – particularly the News...

Reflections on Legendary N.Y. Times Editor “Abe was not politically correct. He didn’t like homosexuals. He was not happy with the feminist movement, and it’s...

A Reminder Not to Forget Reports of Racial Insults As coverage of the Duke lacrosse scandal continued to generate controversy, New York Times Public Editor...