Category : Maynard Institute archives

Activist Tavis Smiley and professor Cornel West view a century-old West African chief mask during a Jan. 14 preview party for "AmericaI AM: The African...

Ebony-Jet Won’t Release Details on Reorganization After volunteering to answer questions about the shakeup under way at its Chicago headquarters, Johnson Publishing Co. sent back...

Bryan Monroe’s Top Job Cut at Ebony, Jet Lawyer Credits New "Political Winds" in Washington A Mexican journalist was released Thursday from a U.S. immigration...

Obama Targets Arabs in First¬†TV Interview as President Barack Obama’s first televised interview as president went to the Arab satellite news channel al Arabiya, and...

Updated January 25   New Yorker, Photog Pleased With Reaction to Photos Photographer Mariana Cook says, "There’s been a fantastic response to the photographs" she...

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGwgp5hmS7o] Gwen Ifill tells a Columbia University audience how she had "a black moment" on Election Night when she heard that Barack Obama had won....

Updated January 22 Newspapers Keep Pace With Demand for Souvenirs "Newspapers that saw skyrocketing demand for extra copies after Election Day were a bit more...

BET Anchor Defends Fairness of Black Journalists "I am overwhelmed at this moment, and I don’t understand how anybody who understands the history of this...

Updated January 13 Company Has Said It, Too, Feels Advertising Decline Lynn A. Norment, Walter Leavy and Malcolm West, three of the four managing editors...

New Year to Find More Journalists of Color Out of Jobs Newsday, which had lauded Les Payne as one "whose groundbreaking work as a reporter,...

   Tough Times Not Seen as Barrier to Broadening Pool Amid alarms that economic troubles are putting newsroom diversity on the back burner, Marcus Brauchli,...

Journalists Recall Encounters With Legendary Diva When Eartha Kitt, "who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens...