Journalists
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the decision to sentence the two journalists and reiterated its call for their immediate release. “The convictions of Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are a travesty and serve as a stark testament to the erosion of freedom of speech and the desperate attempts of the Iranian government […]
Syphilis rates have increased over the past two years, with most new cases among men who have sex with men Study looks at men and sexual and gender minority people including trans women and non-binary people 45% of trans participants and 41.7% of Black participants reported having syphilis at one point in their lives CHICAGO […]
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Sun-Times, we are exploring the history of Chicago — and our own — and thinking about how the next 75 years might unfold. For decades, letting the world know the plight of Blacks in America fell on the shoulders of journalists like Fletcher Martin. Martin became the […]
As a journalist of color working for a legacy publication of color, I’ve spent my career being reminded of my constraints. Like many of my colleagues, I work with limited resources compared with other journalists at larger publications, but I’ve been fortunate in my work with the New York Amsterdam News never to have suffered from having […]
Birmingham civil rights icons share local history with Black journalists: ‘For the joy of us’ AL.com Source link
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout over a Black journalist who said her celebrated hiring at one of the nation’s largest campuses quickly unraveled due to pushback over her past work promoting diversity. President Katherine Banks said in a resignation letter that she was […]
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the McCurtain County sheriff and multiple county officials to resign after leaked audio showed the county leaders discussing killing local reporters and lynching Black people. Sheriff Kevin Clardy, his investigator Alicia Manning, Commissioners Mark Jennings and Robert Beck, commissioners’ secretary Heather Carter and jail administrator Larry Hendrix […]
Two U.S. Park Police officers used excessive force against two Australian journalists covering a George Floyd protest outside the White House in June 2020, according to an investigation by the Interior Department’s inspector general. The investigation, published Wednesday, found that the officers violated U.S. Park Police policies when one pushed a cinematographer’s camera with his […]
Listen to this article here A new study highlighting how news coverage among journalists varies by gender and race found that only six percent of U.S. journalists identify as Black or African American. Despite representing 12 percent of the U.S. population, Black Americans only represent six percent of working journalists . . .
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge recently held a roundtable with a group of Black journalists to discuss the ongoing issue of housing inequities and the opportunities the Biden-Harris administration has pushed for African American and minority homeownership. During the roundtable, Fudge talked about how more needs to be done to fix the […]