Category : Maynard Institute archives

But Publisher Is Outbid for Vanguarde’s Honey Publisher Earl Graves of Black Enterprise magazine was outbid this afternoon for Honey magazine, the last of the...

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...

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...

Reagan Policies Changed Landscape for Media The news media’s week-long coverage of the times of Ronald Reagan has largely ignored the 40th president’s impact on,...

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...

Sharpton, Mel Watt Queried on Choice of Edwards A day after Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., was named to the ticket, the John Kerry for President...

Ex-Record Co. Exec Wants Urban Female Voice The CEO of the company that outbid Earl Graves of Black Enterprise magazine for Vanguarde Media’s Honey magazine...

Sharpton Praised Though Networks Were Elsewhere On Wednesday night, Al Sharpton gave still another oration at the Democratic National Convention that drew praise but went...

(originally published Aug. 20, 2004) 1) Peggy Peterman Fought Inside and Outside Peggy Peterman spoke for many black columnists when, on a 1995 panel at...

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,...

Journalists Asked for Help in Hanging Case When Roy Veal’s body was found hanging from a tree in Woodville, Miss., in April, it became a...

Elder Statesman Urged Knowing One’s History Vernon Jarrett, legendary Chicago journalist who counted Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Chicago Mayor Harold Washington among his heroes,...