MILWAUKEE, WIS. — As more and more violent flash-mob attacks occur across the country, the news media and public officials believe much of the crime is motivated by race. Many African Americans are weary of the descriptions, saying the Black community is being described in a condescending manner and used as a scapegoat. Just yesterday, […]
Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images Radio Facts has named our very own Cathy Hughes as the second TOP BLACK WOMAN IN MEDIA. Oprah won the top spot. What a wonderful honor. CONGRATULATIONS MS. HUGHES! There were some other familiar voices on this list as well including Sybil Wilkes of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, former […]
I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt. Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by […]
From OliverWillis.com: Oh boy.
While minority journalists view the historic election of the U.S.’s first Black president as a positive step for race relations, many believe that their own industry has fallen down on the job in its coverage of race relations, according to the 2010 Journalism in Color Survey on Race and the Media.
