Category : Maynard Institute archives

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,...

Bush Campaign Wanted to Know Photog’s Race “President Bush’s re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph...

Bob Bennett, 37 Years in Business, Dead at 64 Bob Bennett was a retired Detroit television reporter “who coworkers affectionately call Boomer, who the late...

$15 Million from Gift to Help “Broaden and Diversify” National Public Radio has announced “a major expansion of its news operation, investing $15 million over...

NAHJ Awards Go to Stories on Immigration, Iraq “We’re hearing a lot of sad, sad stories,” reporter Mandelit del Barco of National Public Radio said...