……The AFRO’s archives being online! YAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Category Archives: newspaper
Play-Boy
A good profile. ( Interestingly, the new hate didn’t make it in. Deadline or space? Hmm….) It will be hard to live in a world without octos Hef and Stan The Man. For some reason, when I think of one, the other pops up in my head. Must be a Peter Pan thing. 🙂
A Belated CONGRATS To………
……to my great friend, Hazel Trice Edney (the only living symbolic heir to Ethel Payne I know), for the establishment of the Trice Edney News Wire!
A Tale of Two Mumias
JUSTICE ON TRIAL – The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal from bignoisetactical on Vimeo.
And this review about the anti-doc says it all.
RE: MSM and Africa: Finally, A Discussion On “Soft” White Media Supremacy
Well! I’ll give Nicholas Kristof credit for his honesty. These folks only admit that whites matter more than Blacks in stories about Africa in academic books and J-seminars and such. (I first noted the problem when I was 25 or so, when Amy Biehl died and ABC’s “Primetime Live” pulled out the stops.) So it’s good to finally see this mostly intra-racial discussion (as in, among whites 🙂 ) in the mainstream media.
Of course, what’s always missing is a harder—and Blacker—perspective. So here it is, and some comment about it.
Congrats To…….
…..Herb Boyd for his Sunday Miami Herald Op-Ed on the Tea Party.
30 Years And Counting!
CONGRATS to Wayne! (A HistoryMaker, indeed!)
Black Alumni Network
108 Terrell Rd
P.O. Box 6693
Newport News, VA 23606June 28, 2010
For immediate release
Contact: Dan Holly, 919-448-8221
vav@jerrythomaspr.com30th anniversary of alumni monthly committed to media diversity
In July, the Black Alumni Network, a society of Columbia University journalism alumni and friends, celebrates its 30th anniversary. For three decades BA Network’s instrument has been its monthly newsletter. In July 1980, graduate Wayne Dawkins initiated publication with a two-page sheet that he mailed to 25 classmates. Over the years, the founders enlisted alumni from future classes and reached back to men and women in previous classes.
Today the newsletter is circulated monthly to 600 media leaders and also is posted online at journalism.columbia.edu for the 10,000 alumni plus friends of America’s premier graduate school of journalism. In addition, the newsletter has been the most consistent chronicler of the rise of black power within the mainstream media. Two authoritative books on the National Association of Black Journalists were informed by reporting from BA Network correspondents.
The newsletter’s rise has corresponded with the rise in power and influence of members within the network. Among the BA Network’s galaxy of stars are James McBride, ’80, [author of “The Color of Water” and “Miracle at St. Anna”]; Jill Nelson, ’80, [author, “Volunteer Slavery” and “Sexual Healing”]; Mira Thomas Lowe, ’88, [editor of Jet, and first woman to lead that magazine]; sports journalists and classmates George Smith, ’88, and Rob Parker, ’88, of ESPN, Suzanne Malveaux, ’91, CNN White House correspondent, and A’Lelia Bundles, ’76, biographer of Madam C.J. Walker, her great-great grandmother. Bundles is a Columbia University trustee.
BA Network’s three-decade mission has been expanding racial diversity of the media. Its founders took note of the existing “old boy network” of the late 1970s. Rather than complain or sulk, they created an independent instrument in order to build a comparable pool of media talent.
The BA Network’s relentless work has earned the respect and cooperation of university administration and media industry leaders.
A network project is fund raising in order to permanently endow the Black Alumni Network/Phyllis T. Garland scholarship. Since 2006, five scholars have received $5,000 each in order to complete their studies at Columbia J-school.
Editors of the BA Network are available to discuss the state and future of journalism and mass media.
God Bless Rolling Stone!
Issue 1108 – July 8, 2010
Everyone who knows me will tell you I would marry Rolling Stone if I could. 😉 Ah, yes, The Now World-Famous Feature, which finally came in the mail yesterday. As usual, “On The Media” did a great job explaining why McCrystal’s aides felt so free. And as usual, “Democracy Now!” did a great job of illuminating the larger political context. I’m still confused as to the outbursts by David Brooks and Lara Logan, since, like my hero Matt Taibbi, I was taught in journalism school that you don’t worry about the reaction to/results of the story. (Gordon Parks understood this best: I remember reading that he told the Black Panthers and others he covered to not say or do anything in front of him that they didn’t want in Life magazine.) Clearly Brooks and Logan are too close to power to remember that. Logan, the reporter of the two, should know better.
AUGUST 10th UPDATE: I’m sure Hastings is not surprised by this. And I wasn’t surprised by this.
The Last Word On……..
…..the debate between Jews on Gaza. Once again, NPR’s “On The Media” provides great (mainstream) radio. I also enjoyed the reaction.
……Helen Thomas. Damn. Talk about no one being safe. The real loss is the vaccuum of White House press corps skepticism that will now be all too evident.
…….Wilbert Rideau’s coming out party. Congrats!
…….the woman who claims she got fired from her job because she was too fine. I believe her! LOL! 🙂 Yes, sue, sue, sue! And CONGRATS to my blog sponsor Saswat, who took the inital pictures of her seen around the globe! My friend Saswat is now a prominent photojournalist in addition to being a new daddy and a revolutionary! Hat trick! LOL!
Asante Sana, Lena Horne
I hope you find peace in the Realm of the Ancestors. You sure worked hard enough for it.
I’m glad that your commitment to what Negro newspapers used to call “the race” has not been forgotten. I’ll never forget how shocked I was to see your Op-Eds in The People’s Voice on the same page as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois!
Drums in the Global Village 
