Featured Justice for the Press at Protests
Protecting the rights of journalists to cover protests without unjustified interference by police is one of the priorities of the Justice Department, DOJ officials told...
Category : Journal-isms Roundtable
Featured ‘The Man’ Went to Afghanistan
What we heard from African American observers on Afghanistan wasn't what the mainstream media had been reporting for the last 20 years....
Featured Straight Talk on TV Hair
The way Black women wear their hair in television news led to the most animated conversation of the evening....
Featured Tell It, Black Journalists, Tell It!
Journalists urged to pursue the stories of the "Red Summer" atrocities of the early 20th century...
Media Play a Part in Environmental Racism
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology): How journalists can better cover environmental justice/environmental racism,"...
Who Was Bernadette? Who Was Mrs. Jones?
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who created the "Philly Sound," and Robin R. Terry and Iris Gordy of the Motown Museum in an exchange with...
Featured ‘Is My Fellow Congressman Trying to Kill Me?’
How would you like to go to work every day wondering whether your colleagues were in on a plot to kill you?...
Featured Will Church Banners Afire Connect the Dots?
"The Black Church vs. the Proud Boys": The fight for newsroom diversity is also a battle for context....
Featured Clyburn Wants to Amplify ‘Lift Every Voice’
Jim Clyburn plans to introduce legislation to make "Lift Every Voice and Sing" the "national hymn"; says journalists of color have especially challenging mission in...
How Journalists Can Be Successful Authors
Dana Canedy, publisher of Simon & Schuster, who in July became the first Black person revealed her progress open up the publishing ranks to more...
‘Myopic, Dopey, Ill-Informed Coverage’
Ray Suarez's self-described "rant" about the media's reporting on the way Latinos voted....
Featured ‘Skee-Wees,’ Screeches and Nuance
Journalists of color often got the nuance, says Julian Castro, former Democratic presidential candidate....