Diversity

Carl Sandburg’s Reporting Foretold the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

“Diversity fatigue has been alive and well in America's news industry for many years,” writes Milton Coleman, a senior editor at The Washington Post and an organizer of Leadership in…
September 13, 2011
Cameron McWhirter

Diversity in Newsrooms: Fresh Strategies, New Goals

“Diversity fatigue has been alive and well in America's news industry for many years,” writes Milton Coleman, a senior editor at The Washington Post and an organizer of Leadership in…
September 13, 2011
Milton Coleman

Here’s What People Want to Know: Why Do Journalists Tell These Stories?

Why is what happened then considered news today? Why stir up memories of events that were long ago put to rest? Hank Klibanoff, author of “The Race Beat” and managing…
September 12, 2011
Hank Klibanoff

Revealing Sex Crimes Against Black Women

Before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, she had already been fighting for racial equality for more than a decade. She strategized with other activists,…
September 9, 2011
Jan Gardner

When Lawyers and Journalists Share Common Cause

‘Our dual approaches keep steady attention fixed on the [Frank] Morris case and they pressure local and federal law enforcement to thoroughly investigate it, with a spillover effect of bringing…
September 9, 2011
Janis L. McDonald

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
Jack E. White

The Case of the Supposedly Sealed Files—And What They Revealed

‘I continue to pore through 40,000 pages of FBI records, the entire FBI case file in the Klan’s 1964 killings of [James] Chaney, [Andrew] Goodman and [Michael] Schwerner. Two suspects…
September 9, 2011
Jerry Mitchell

Familiar Patterns of Minority Exclusion Follow Mainstream Media Online

‘The parallels between the legacies and online media are as stark as they are disheartening.’
September 7, 2011
Jean Marie Brown

Roi Ottley: An African-American Journalist Covers World War II

Old World War II movies usually included the standard cliché of a United States Army unit serving as a microcosm of American diversity. As the soldiers trudged along muddy roads…
September 7, 2011
Cameron McWhirter

To Be a ‘Negro’ Newsman—Reporting on the Emmett Till Murder Trial

Simeon Booker, center, covers the Emmett Till murder trial for Jet magazine. He is seated in the Negro press section with, from left, Clotye Murdock of Ebony magazine, L. Alex…
September 7, 2011
Simeon Booker