Category : Maynard Institute archives

Carolyn Phillips Was Its Top Journalist of Color In November 2002, we reported that the list of layoffs at the Wall Street Journal included Carolyn...

Changes Mind, Baltimore Businessman New Owner After winning the bidding for Heart & Soul, the black women’s health and fitness magazine auctioned off as part...

An Electrifying Speech, but It Wasn’t on Networks “Jazz Night at Slade’s” was the title of the “Convention Diary” posted on washington post.com today by...

Right Wing to Black Nationalists, They Can’t Resist More than two weeks after Bill Cosby spoke in Washington about old-time values and “the lower economic...

Outrage at NBC Impersonation of Terror Suspects John Zito, an Italian from New York, and Tyrone Edwards, who police described as an Asian-Indian from Atlanta,...

Are Journalists Given Enough Ethics Training? As a second reporter at Georgia’s Macon Telegraph leaves the paper amid allegations of plagiarism — a charge the...

Chicago’s Journalist-Activist Lu Palmer Was 82 In the latest in a string of passings of activist black journalists, Chicago’s Lu Palmer, who once declared, “I...

Democrat’s Campaign Changes Plans Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, has accepted an invitation to speak at Unity 2004 on the morning...

Blacks Hardly Exist as Media Retell Reagan Story As Ronald Reagan might say, “There they go again!” Column inch upon column inch, news segment upon...

Journos of Color Are “Future of the News Media” “How Long Must We Wait?: The Fight for Racial and Ethnic Equality in the American News...

The 4th of July weekend reminds us once again of the great abolitionist and editor Frederick Douglass, whose 1852 speech, “What to a Slave is...

Gift Goes Toward Media Studies at Black College “Texas Southern University received one of its largest donations ever from an individual Monday when Tavis Smiley,...