black journalists
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'We Need Some Women in Here': Tamron Hall Required ABC to Hire More Women for Her New Show
As if we needed another reason to support Tamron Hall’s new show when it debuts on September 9 on ABC, she just gave us one more. As reported by Page Six, when speaking to the audience at Rolling Stone’s Women Shaping the Future brunch on Wednesday, the veteran journalist disclosed that she’d demanded more women…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Tells the Story of Investigative Journalist Ida B. Wells
New York Times Magazine staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones considers Ida B. Wells her spiritual grandmother. “She is really the template on which I’ve tried to base my own journalistic career,” she tells The Root. The 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant fellow acknowledges that Wells was one of the original data reporters. Through her work, Ida B.…
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Fewer Black Journalists Seem to Want to Cover Their Own
Fear of Being ‘Pigeonholed,’ Psychic Toll at Issue In 1984, Jesse Jackson won applause when he told the National Association of Black Journalists, then approaching its ninth year, “You must become the authorities on African American and African experience. “Before you be a little of everything to everybody, be something special to where you live.”…
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50 Years After Kerner Report Criticizing Representation of Black People in Media, Some Say It Wasn’t Taken Seriously
Media Were ‘Shockingly Backward’ on Blacks Tweets Show Media Are Considered Clueless . . . Income Inequality, Wealth Gap Have Widened Tapper Blasts Politicians Who Meet With Farrakhan Unity Votes to Dissolve Indian Country Today Revived; Trahant to Edit Amy Holmes to Co-Host Conservative PBS Show Brazile Calls Russian Hacking ‘National Emergency’ RTDNA Asks Journalists…
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Black Writers Telling Black Stories and Doing Black Journalism Are Important
It cannot be said enough: Representation matters. It matters in our schools. It matters in our workplaces. It matters in the television shows and movies we watch as well as in the music we listen to. And it definitely matters in the media. Journalists are considered primary sources as far as history is concerned, and…
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The Caucasity of Outrage Because Erica Garner’s Family Won’t Talk to White Journalists
After the death of Erica Garner, the 27-year-old daughter of police-brutality victim Eric Garner, many people who were aware of her activism were left with a sense of loss. Others, including some of the writers at The Root who knew and respected Erica, were stunned at the sudden death of someone so young and so…
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Trailblazing Civil Rights Journalist Simeon Booker Dies at Age 99
Simeon Booker, the trailblazing black journalist known for detailing African-American life in Ebony and Jet magazines, died Sunday at the age of 99 in an assisted-living community in Maryland. Booker had many accolades under his belt, including having been the first full-time black reporter at the Washington Post. He is also credited with bringing the…
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Black Journalist in Poland Breaks Down Trump’s Visit
Anti-Migrant Government Extended Warm Welcome Suspended Fox Business Host Denies Harassment Maher Links N. Koreans and U.S. Nail Salons Editors to Reflect on 50 Years of Diversity Efforts Journal-isms Inc. Receives First Seed Grant Support for Idea of Slavery as Motivation for 1776 A Host Advises on Conducting That Great Interview Virgil Smith, Ex-Gannett V.P.,…
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The Black Press Faces New Reality in the Era of Trump
“Twitter is blowing up about this.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people utter this phrase, calmly walking back to the greenroom at CNN, MSNBC or Fox, heads craned forward to look at their phones. Twitter responses, especially negative ones, are like a rite of passage when you do television commentary. It…