Filmgoers Should Have a Chance to See the Documentary Judy Richardson was a worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia from 1963 to 1966, the time depicted in the movie “Selma.” She began a career in filmmaking as associate producer of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985,”…

500 Urged to Shine a Light, Like Michel du Cille His photojournalist wife wanted friends and colleagues to know that “If he were here today, he’d be reminding us of the real story: 8,429 lives lost to Ebola and counting. “He’d be saying, ‘Remember the real story. Remember the thousands of people in Liberia, Sierra…

Clifford Alexander Says Film Gets One Thing Wrong Clifford L. Alexander Jr. says nobody from the news media has asked him, but that anyone who says that President Lyndon B. Johnson was at odds with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders over the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights…

Beverly Johnson Charges Surface Talk of Lies, Death Threats CNN replied Monday to a scathing letter from Bill Cosby’s lawyer accusing the network of unethical reporting tactics with a scathing letter of its own. The network’s lawyer ripped into the character of a former boyfriend of supermodel Beverly Johnson, who, following accusations by other women,…

Pullback of Movie Demonstrates “All Films Are Political” “Black leaders, angered by racially insensitive emails sent by Amy Pascal, the movie chief at Sony Pictures Entertainment, emerged from a meeting with her on Thursday saying they had reached an understanding about how to move forward,” Brooks Barnes reported for the New York Times. “Ms. Pascal,…

Cosby Says Black-Press Freelancer Duped Him Bill Cosby’s attorney John P. Schmitt issued a statement Monday criticizing journalist Stacy M. Brown, who interviewed the comedian for a story published online Saturday in the New York Post and the Washington Informer. “Schmitt alleges his client was unaware the conversation was being recorded and would wind up in the Post,” Travis Reilly reported…

Senate Democrats’ Study Reveals Leaks to Journalists ” The Central Intelligence Agency leaked classified material to reporters to shape the perception that its detention and interrogation program was an effective tool in thwarting terrorism, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday,” Noam Cohen and Ravi Somaiya reported for the New York Times. “The…

Younger African Americans Hear Message of Racial Progress “President Obama is delivering a pointed message to younger African Americans that the nation has made progress on race relations, urging patience and resolve in the wake of new protests in New York and elsewhere,” David Nakamura and Vanessa Williams wrote Monday in a front-page story for…

Attorney General Repeats, “No Reporter’s Going to Jail” Before Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart ended his interview with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday, he asked one final question: “What’s the one decision you made that you wish you could do over again?,” Matt Wilstein reported for Mediaite. “Without much…

Publisher Says She’ll Focus on Online Edition Sister2Sister, a women’s magazine that focuses on black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy protection and put the print edition on hiatus so it can focus on its website, publisher Jamie Foster Brown told Journal-isms. Brown, a onetime secretary to Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson whose website describes…