At the end of January, I organized and moderated a panel at Temple University’s School of Media and Communications called “Separate But Equal? The...
Cornel West is no stranger to controversy, and this time his fervent slingshot is aimed at black MSNBC hosts. During an interview on "Democracy N...
The annual Root 100 was released Thursday, and there were plenty of media figures among the honorees. Every year, the site names 100 prominent bla...
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidentia...
Raspberry was a member of the first generation of African-American journalists to barge into an exclusive all-white club. As we find ourselves regularly recording the deaths, retirements or buyouts of black reporters, is TV and print news better and more complete because of the legacy of black journalists?
NEW ORLEANS — Vice President Joe Biden hammered on some of President Barack Obama's re-election themes at a conference for black media professionals...
Black journalists are being hit particularly hard by the recent round of cuts at the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister papers in Alabama. T...
When rumors surfaced this week that Sharpton was under consideration for the MSNBC job, one NABJ member told colleagues without challenge, "This would...
Mainstream journalism or a desire to delve more deeply into African-American issues. Whatever the reasons, with increasing frequency, African-American...
The New York Post has revealed that CNN is once again considering adding a person of color to one of their nighttime anchor spots, a move that is long overdue.
The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.
The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Ed Bradley's well televised presence inspired Black America to believe in the potential reality of equality, while simultaneously educating White America to the promise of opportunity.
After the first black president completed his first prime-time press conference, the black press was red hot. "We were window dressing," said Hazel E...
Eight days before Barack Obama is sworn in, the relative paucity of black journalists at the White House is striking. A mostly white press corps at 16...
