Category : Maynard Institute archives

Media “Carnival” Over NFL Star Decried, Defended The latest drama involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens — the report of a suicide attempt and...

Everyday Black Speech Became “. . . an Art Form” “The walls of First AME, Los Angeles’ oldest African American church, could barely contain the...

News Media Explain, Examine Icon’s Significance Funeral services were scheduled, special sections produced, editorials and commentaries written, and some version of “she sat down so...

Services Monday for former Houston anchor Cheryle Keck (fifth item) (Added Jan. 22) Originally posted January 2006. Pickett died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2006 Boomers’ Influence...

Duke U. Accusation Raises Coverage Questions An African American college student working as an exotic dancer says she was raped and beaten by white members...

Former TV Critic Still Wants to Practice “the Craft” Ken Parish Perkins, in his first interview since resigning last week as television critic at Texas’...

Says Only Columnist’s Job Could Have Kept Him Don Wycliff, for six years the public editor of the Chicago Tribune and for nine years before...

Make War on “Holiday” Word or Help Save Lives? Here’s a challenge: The crisis in Darfur, Sudan, where killings, rapes, burning and looting continue, has...

Tyler Perry Film No. 1 for Second Weekend “It was one of those rare Oscar weekends when not one nominated movie made it into the...

Ex-BBC Producer Assembling His Own Team Vicki Mabrey, the CBS News correspondent who was dropped from that network when CBS canceled “60 Minutes II,” has...

Belafonte, Nagin, Clinton Comments Create Stirs Activist entertainer Harry Belafonte, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., all found themselves the...

First African American Since Carole Simpson Russ Mitchell has been named anchor of the Sunday edition of the “CBS Evening News” effective immediately, Sean McManus,...