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(Video added 2023) Originally published Dec. 27, 2006 Nearly Every Front Page Includes Entertainer’s Death The announcement that entertainer James Brown had died at age

Updating: Two Half-Hour Shows to Air Over Weekend BET News announced Friday that two specials on entertainer James Brown, who died on Christmas, will air

A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America: 1. Whiplash The turmoil in the news business prompted by new technologies,

Network Will “Vigorously Defend Itself” CBS issued the following statement this afternoon in response to Journal-isms’ report Monday of a discrimination complaint by fired CBS

Susan Taylor Protests School’s No-Braids Policy Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., used the phrase “much ado about a hairdo” to describe the brouhaha that ensued after

For 10 Years, Led St. Louis Post-Dispatch William Woo, who as editor and editorial page editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was said to be

Two Black Journalists Get Key Beats The New York Times has assigned two black journalists to key beats – at the State Department and as

Targets Have Included Washington Notables Robin Givhan of the Washington Post today won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism “for her witty, closely observed essays that

Journalists Push Back at Critic Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed, the African American social critic and novelist, took on several leading journalists of color in a

Columnist Wendi Thomas Quits Before She Starts Columnist Wendi C. Thomas, who last month bid farewell to readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal and moved

Newspapers Falling Below Benchmarks for Progress The number of journalists of color in newspaper newsrooms grew slightly last year, with the greatest growth among Hispanics

U.S. Agency Working With Unity on Public Meeting As the news media fail to measure up to their stated hopes for progress on diversity and