Category : Maynard Institute archives

Washington Post Co., Henry Louis Gates Team Up Online   Lynette Clemetson had been going to work in Washington’s Dupont Circle neighborhood for the past...

’08 Campaign Teams Inch Toward Greater Diversity The nation’s news media appear to be inching toward greater diversity in their campaign coverage teams as the...

Timesman Was “Crushed” by Actions of “Friends” A lengthy look at the New York Times career of Gerald M. Boyd, who died a year ago...

Leader in News Industry to Become Opinion Editor Gilbert Bailón, a former executive editor of the Dallas Morning News who launched the paper’s Spanish-language offshoot,...

Originally published Oct. 11, 2007 Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program has created 2,800 murals. “Ridge on the Rise,” by Josh Sarantitis and Eric Okdehm, shows such...

Some Ask, What If It Had Been a White Journalist? When Rudolph Brewington, a Washington broadcast journalist turned government employee, saw an Associated Press story...

7 Arrested in Raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery The son of the late Oakland Black Muslim leader Yusuf Bey was among seven people arrested...

A “Crossover” Artist Known for Playboy Work Robert “Buck” Brown, one of the first “crossover” African American cartoonists, whose work appeared in Playboy magazine over...

A “Crossover” Artist Known for Playboy Work Robert “Buck” Brown, one of the first “crossover” African American cartoonists, whose work appeared in Playboy magazine over...

A Tejano Filmmaker Says, “Give Me a Chance” In the war over “The War,” Hector Galan may hold the key. For months, Latino groups, supported...

Originally published Feb. 27, 2007 Paper Makes Hay With Sharpton-Thurmond Link The revelation that the Rev. Al Sharpton’s ancestors were owned by the late Sen....

Gerald Boyd Services Illustrate Obligation, Burden Eulogies: “Well, That’s One Hell of a Burden” Gerald M. Boyd’s former colleague Bernard Weinraub raised an issue worth...