Several Black writers and editors have used this moment to spur change within their current and former newsrooms. By Taryn Finley, HuffPost COVID-19 was a “foundational shift” for Brooklyn-based freelance journalist Antoinette Isama. On June 13, Isama wrote about the Tribute to the Ancestors of the Middle Passage, a tradition that for decades has remembered the […]
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Photos That Challenge Stereotypes About African-American Youths
The photographs in the new book “Picturing Children” affirm that kids will be kids: They study. They play. They interact with family. But those lives are often overshadowed by prejudice and preconceptions.
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Documenting New Orleans’ Black Community – In Pictures
The Historic New Orleans Collection has acquired the photo archive of photojournalist Harold F. Baquet, its first collection by a black photographer.
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History & Heritage: Area Newspapers Slow to Cover African-American Communities
During the era of segregation, African-Americans were excluded from almost every facet of white society.
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A Photographer Who Captured the Complexity of Black Life in Lyrical Ways
Louis Draper resisted labels. He knew that they could confine, like boxes, but much worse, they might be like prison cells: impossible to escape.
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Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted by Racism?
In the 1930s, the federal government sent (mostly white) interviewers to learn about slavery from former slaves. Can we trust the stories they brought back?
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New York Times Failed to Capture Problems Facing Black Press
Sunday’s front-page story on the Black Press failed to accurately portray the accomplishments of and the depth of the problems facing Black-owned media, according to scholars, Black media owners and editors.
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Sale of Ebony, Jet Opens ‘Next Chapter’ for African-American Publications
Johnson Publishing announced the sale of its African-American lifestyle magazines on Tuesday. The new owner, a private equity firm, says it intends to continue their legacy.
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The Black Journalist and the Racial Mountain
It’s not what the wider world says about black writers that should concern them, so much as what they say about themselves.
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