Category : Maynard Institute archives

19-Year-Old Said to Be Angry Over Bailey’s Stories       “A 19-year-old handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery admitted to police Friday night that...

“Only One Reason” to Retain a Well-Known Litigator Stephen A. Smith, the outspoken Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist who was reassigned against his will to the...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: About the Craft Anyone familiar with the history of African Americans in journalism knows the words, “We wish to plead our...

Johnson Publishing Teams with Annenberg School Johnson Publishing Co., publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, has pledged $2.5 million to the University of Southern California’s...

Blog Compared Officials to Minstrel Performers     An African American editorial writer for the Indianapolis Star was ousted late Wednesday, five days after he...

Speculation Mounts That Shock Jock Will Return As speculation mounts that Don Imus will return to the airwaves after his ouster in April for racist...

Appointment Comes 2 Weeks After Cartoon Flap Two weeks after the Cleveland Plain Dealer angered many in the black community over a cartoon for which...

Network Claims Validation for Diversity Commitment A federal jury in Atlanta on Wednesday determined that CNN did not engage in either race or age discrimination...

Sharpton Says Citadel Should Meet With Journalists Don Imus‘ apparent new employer, Citadel Broadcasting, has been keeping the National Association of Black Journalists waiting since...

Premier documentarian St. Clair Bourne dies (see item below) Some Call It a Milestone, Others See Holes Sports columnists of color greeted former senator George...

From Anchor Visits to Bloggers Roundtable Broadcast coverage of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina includes on-the-scene reports by anchors from CBS, NBC and CNN....

Sharpton Says Company Still Owes NABJ a Meeting “Don Imus will return to the airwaves Dec. 3 on New York’s WABC-AM, only nine months after...