Category : Maynard Institute archives

Signal Drops Out on CNN Show About Bigotry “With much anticipation, some Vidorians waited to see yet another television special about dealing with the stigma...

NABJ’s First Leader Stands Behind Old Friend Bill Cosby might be taking brickbats from some for his two-year-long crusade for more personal responsibility among some...

Katrina anniversary coverage on ABC, BET, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, National Public Radio, NBC and TV One Captors release...

Host Says He Learned from Those Who Dissed Him       Talk-show host Tavis Smiley calls his Web site “Tavis Talks,” and that’s exactly...

Sorting Out the “Day Without Immigrants” The “Day Without Immigrants,” or “Day of Absence,” has come and gone. What’s left is sorting out the role...

On Deadly Indian Bombings, Some Still Go Colonial The terrorist bombings of a railway station in India Tuesday, which left at least 200 people dead,...

Viewers of Color Give Edge to ABC in First Week Blacks and Latinos did not join the bandwagon driving viewers to Katie Couric’s historic debut...

“We Are Sorry for Any Pain,” Media Czar Says “The chairman of News Corporation issued a statement today announcing that it will not broadcast an...

Paper Atones for Siding With Segregationists The latest decision by a Southern newspaper to apologize for its actions during the civil rights era has been...

Air Raid Killed Only Half as Many as Reported On Sunday, the uproar over an Israeli air raid on the southern Lebanon town of Qana,...

Pulitzer Winner Says, “I Was Fired. I Had No Clue” “OUR SHIPP SAILS AWAY WITH PULITZER,” the New York Daily News trumpeted in 1996, when...

Historic Black Paper to Face Yet Another Test Roland S. Martin, who raised the profile of the historic Chicago Defender as its executive editor and...