Garth C. Reeves Sr., publisher emeritus of The Miami Times and a voice for the aspirations of African Americans in Miami for most of the past century, died on Monday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] He had turned 100 on Feb. 12. The Miami Times was the only job publisher emeritus Garth C. Reeves Sr. ever had, aside […]
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Former Ebony publishing company is auctioning off its historic photo archive, containing more than 4 million photos, to pay its creditors | CNN
Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, CNN Author James Baldwin photographed leaving his home. (G. Marshall Wilson/Johnson Publishing Company). Featured Image [dropcap]C[/dropcap]NN – Ebony and Jet magazines were once pinnacles of black American culture. Their photographs were windows into intimate moments of black celebrities, and they were known for their everyday depictions of middle class […]
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Black Editor Resigns From Newspaper That Urged KKK Revival | AFRO
Associated Press, AFRO [dropcap]LINDEN[/dropcap], Ala. (AP) — An African-American woman who took over the helm of a small-town Alabama newspaper that recently called for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again” has stepped down after a few weeks, citing interference from the newspaper’s owner. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Elecia R. Dexter told The New York Times on […]
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“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice | People’s World
The rocky relationship between journalism and the struggle for African-American equality, like any other courtship, is full of ebbs and flows, fluctuations that often times mirror larger societal changes.
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Black Icons Shun the Black Press | The Washington Informer
“Let me take the message to my people in the Black community and you take the message to the white community and, if it works out, we’ll meet.” – Bobby Rush
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African-American owned newspapers thriving amid industry slump – KXAN
Newspapers nationwide have drastically cut down on production, a result of a slump in advertising and a drop in readership.
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Discover The Unexpected (DTU) Coverage: Enhancing Black Owned Print and Digital Press In the Age of Social Media
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes the career development success of the Discover the Unexpected (DTU) NNPA Journalism Fellowship program that has just completed its first term of providing undergraduate students at the Howard University School of Communication the unique apprentice opportunity to work at NNPA member newspapers in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and Detroit.
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