Wise Words From Nelson Mandela That Hit Harder Than Ever, In Honor of His Death Anniversary
Meghan Markle’s Holiday Netflix Special is Just the Kind of Self-Care Black Folks Need Right Now
Why the Netflix Diddy Doc Has Everyone Furious at This Black Woman Juror From the Trial
Halle Berry Trashes the Idea of Gavin Newsom as President For One Crucial Reason
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Paula Madison to Step Down From NBC Universal
Diversity Advocate “Planned for My Retirement Since . . . 21” Paula Madison, executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBCUniversal, is retiring on May 20 after more than 35 years in the news media, NBCUniversal intends to announce on Monday. Madison, 58, a board member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and…
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ASNE to Help Editors Reach Out to 'New America'
Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…
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Journalists of Color Decline for Third Year
U.S. “Minority” Population at 36 percent; in Newsrooms, 12.79 percent The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported Thursday in disclosing the results of its annual diversity survey. Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, “American newspapers…
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Black in Latin America: Brazil's Complex View of Race and Color
Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated — a lot more complicated. In his new PBS series, The Root’s editor-in-chief examines the complexities of race and color in Brazil, the country with the second-largest number of people of African descent in the world after Nigeria —…
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The Vine: Thelma Golden on Art and the Black Community
Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, spoke to The Root recently for the Vine video series on African-American leaders. She told Omar Wasow that art might not seem very important when you take into account some of the serious issues facing the black community, but “the ability…
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Media Cite Alleged Malcolm X Killer Via Marable Book
Death of Malcolm X Biographer Manning Marable on Eve of Biography’s Release Gave Opportunity Media Have Long Resisted. The mainstream media long resisted identifying the man believed to have pulled the trigger in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, but found its opportunity with Monday’s publication of the late scholar Manning Marable’s new biography, “Malcolm…
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Malcolm X Scholar Dies on Eve of Revelations
Noted African American historian Manning Marable died in New York on Friday, three days before his long-awaited book containing revelations about Malcolm X is to be published, his publicist confirmed. He was 60.A prolific writer, Marable directed the Institute for the Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and for years wrote the column…
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Black Journalists Want Larger Voice in Minority 'Unity' Group
President Notes Association Is “the Largest Partner” The National Association of Black Journalists is seeking a larger voice within Unity: Journalists of Color, an organization that gives each of its four partner organizations the same number of votes, NABJ President Kathy Y. Times told members in a message Tuesday night. “All four journalism organizations that…
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The Vine: Marcus Samuelsson's Melting Pot
As part of the Vine series on leadership, The Root’s Omar Wasow interviewed the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised celebrity chef about code switching, the difference between eating expensively and eating well, and the unique role of today’s African-American leaders. “Being able to be in many different worlds is really an opportunity,” he says. “I can talk to…