Serlina Boyd struggled to find a magazine for her young daughter that celebrated Black culture. With extra time on their hands during lockdown, they created one together. — Lin Taylor, Thompson Reuters Foundation News LONDON, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – All Serlina Boyd wanted when Britain first went into lockdown this spring was a […]
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Post-Civil Rights Era Drama About The Launch Of Essence Magazine In Works At HBO Max | DEADLINE
— Nellie Andreeva, DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: The origin story on Essence magazine is the subject of a period drama series in development at HBO Max. It is executive produced by Edward Lewis, the co-founder of Essence magazine and chairman and publisher emeritus of Essence Communications Inc., one of the largest African-American owned communications companies in the United States. Set amid […]
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The titan of Black media, John H. Johnson, shaped how African Americans got the news | USA Today
— Robin Hill, The Guardian The Black Lives Matter focus on police violence against African Americans takes me back decades. The first news account I ever saw, as a poor Black boy in St. Louis, covered the 1955 racist lynching of Emmett Till in the pocket-sized weekly Jet news magazine. For decades, African American barbershops and beauty […]
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‘Soul!’ Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story. | The New York Times
“Mr. Soul!” spotlights Ellis Haizlip, the host of a show that gave Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett and James Baldwin a platform. By Jim Farber, The New York Times Anyone analyzing the image of African-Americans on the narrow range of TV stations available in the United States 50 years ago could expect to see one of […]
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Richelieu Dennis replaced as CEO of Essence Communications amid investigation | TheGrio
The top executive is taking a step back after sexual harassment allegations are lifted by anonymous employees By Biba Adams, TheGrio A blog post titled, The Truth About Essence, went viral over the weekend as the anonymous women writers blogged about their painful experiences working at the magazine. In it, they requested the resignation of several […]
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Joy Reid set to become cable’s first black female prime-time anchor | Page Six
By Sara Nathan, Page Six Joy Reid is about to make history as cable’s first black female prime-time anchor. Back in March, Page Six first reported that Reid was on a short list — along with Shep Smith and Steve Kornacki — to take over the slot occupied by Chris Matthews until his abrupt exit from MSNBC. Now we’re […]
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Philadelphia Inquirer’s Top Editor Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline | HuffPost
The headline, a riff on Black Lives Matter, suggested an equivalence between the destruction of buildings and the deaths of Black people. The top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer has resigned amid backlash over the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” — a riff on “Black Lives Matter” — which was published in the paper last week […]
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Miami Times publisher Garth Reeves Sr., ‘conscience of the black community,’ dies at 100 | Miami Herald
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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War Reporters: Thomas Morris Chester | Military History Matters
Thomas Morris Chester is a name little-known in most households. But Chester was a remarkable pioneer. The son of abolitionists George and Jane Marie Chester, he fought passionately – in the civil rights movement and in the Civil War – against slavery, and later became the first African American war correspondent to write for a […]
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