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Jack E. White

Jack E. White, a 1977 Nieman Fellow, writes a weekly commentary, RightWatch, for The Root. For 29 years he worked at Time magazine, as a columnist, correspondent and editor.

Black Journalism Takes Root in Contemporary Times

When Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The Washington Post Company CEO Donald Graham launched The Root in 2008, their ambitions were anything but modest. “We wanted to…
September 9, 2011

Lacking a Worthy Story, a Columnist Retreats From Writing About Race

‘Race is a subject that needs lowered voices, or even some benign neglect.’
September 15, 2003