Sep 16, 2024 | Journalism, Leadership, Women
As the first Black person to work at The Atlanta Constitution, Tina McElroy Ansa paved the way for generations of Black storytellers. Tina McElroy Ansa, the celebrated author, journalist, and trailblazer whose vivid storytelling gave voice to the beauty, complexity,...
May 8, 2023 | History, Journalism, Women
In 1979, Viola Osgood and two Globe colleagues asked an editor if they could write about six Black women and girls, ranging in age from 15 to 29, who were murdered in a three-mile radius in Dorchester and Roxbury within a few weeks. Boston’s media mostly ignored their...
Aug 22, 2022 | Books, Higher Education, Journalism
Princeton University Press is thrilled to announce the recent signing of Eddie R. Cole’s Black Ideas, a history of American higher education as told through the Black intellectuals who shaped it. Peter Dougherty, acquisitions editor for the project,...
Oct 25, 2021 | Journalism, Literature, Media, Women
It was 2013 when film and culture critic Zeba Blay became one of the of the first to coin the viral term, #CarefreeBlackGirls. Now, Blay is expanding on the popular hashtag with a deeper dive on what it means to be a carefree Black girl in her book of essays entitled,...
Jul 12, 2021 | Higher Education, Journalism, Media, Women
Rising college senior Charity Cohen awoke Tuesday in her Whitsett, N.C., home to a call from her father, who had disappointing news. Acclaimed reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones announced on “CBS This Morning” that she was heading to Howard University instead of...
Mar 15, 2021 | Journalism, Media
Malcolm X is quoted to have said “the media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.” The media plays a pivotal role in shaping our perceptions of the world and of different groups of people....
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