Dr. King’s Favorite Pastime and More Little Known Facts on the Anniversary of His Murder
Anti-Affirmative Action Groups are Now Coming for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Scholarships
Why an Ex-Syracuse Basketball Player Chose Deportation to Sudan
New Study: DNA Testing Could Be the Key to Saving Black Women With Breast Cancer
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A 'Red Tail' Salutes the Black Press
Tuskegee Airman Recalls Role of the Black Press Black journalists received a salute from a spokesman for the Tuskegee Airmen Thursday night when Dr. Roscoe Brown told the National Association of Black Journalists, “It was black journalists that brought us to the attention of the black community throughout the country during the time we were…
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Washington Post Focus on Black Women
In Poll, Career Success Trumps Having Children, Romance “Black women are far more likely than white women to place importance on career success and are less inclined to focus on having children or being in a romantic relationship, according to a new, nationwide survey by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation,” the Post…
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'Roots' Star: Racial Discourse 'Like 1950s'
Thirty-five years ago, the television miniseries Roots cracked open the national dialogue about race with its searing portrayal of life before and during slavery for several generations in African-American writer Alex Haley’s family. Is America as honest about the way we discuss race today? One of Roots’ stars, Leslie Uggams, spoke with The Root’s editor-in-chief,…
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Gossip Sites Lose, News Numbers Rise
Visitors to African American-oriented websites upended the pecking order in December, according to the comScore Inc. research company, ending the long run of the lurid gossip site MediaTakeOut.com as champion eyeball magnet. That distinction, for now, goes to the website of Black Entertainment Television. Moreover, the newsier sites HuffPost BlackVoices, theGrio.com, theRoot.com, Essence.com and NewsOne,…
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George Curry Group Buys Heart & Soul
Sandra Guzman, Formerly of Latina, Named Editor-in-Chief A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-and-wellness magazine targeting African Americans, and named former Latina magazine editor-in-chief Sandra Guzman its top editor as part of an effort to broaden its focus. “Racial and ethnic minorities constituted 91.7 percent of…
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NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice
Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…
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Abu-Jamal Off Death Row, in the Hole
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists who became an international symbol of opposition to the death penalty, is being subjected to “worse” prison conditions today than when he was on death row, his supporters say. Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, was liberated from…
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Day of Reckoning for Pat Buchanan
MSNBC to Decide Whether to Return Commentator to Air After years of complaints that commentator Pat Buchanan’s diatribes were racist and anti-Semitic, MSNBC is ready to make a decision about whether to return Buchanan to the air. “Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin…
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On Newt, Blacks and Food Stamps
“I was one of twenty or so reporters in the room, but according to Dylan Byers I was first to tweet it,” Dave Weigel of Slate.com wrote from New Hampshire on Friday. He was referring to this town hall comment Thursday from Newt Gingrich: “So I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to…
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Were Blacks and Latinos Dissed or Just Ignored?
Muted Coverage of GOP Candidates’ Posture on Race No Blacks, Latinos on Time Magazine Political Team Black Women Contributing to New Washington Post Blog New Yorker, Miami Herald Join Univision-Marco Rubio Feud Ken Ward, 44, Dies Before Starting New Job in Tampa Claudia Pryor Malis, Television Producer, Documentarian Melissa Harris-Perry Awarded Weekend MSNBC Show Short…