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When Violence Was the Black Journalist's Ticket
Washington, D.C., stayed cool through the long, hot summers of urban uprisings in the mid-1960s, but when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis the capital exploded. Bob Maynard, one of the rare black journalists in white daily newsrooms, watched from a radio car and calmly dictated details of the chaos to his colleagues…
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John Edwards: Obama's Ace in the Hole
It was the finest moment of the agonizing slog this election season has become. John Edwards was back, bringing a gift of reconciliation by merging three concerns that have divided loyalties this year: race, gender and class. By endorsing Barack Obama on Wednesday, Edwards pointed voters back toward the “moral shame of 37 million people…
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The Night Washington Burned Black
They told us to stay in the dorms that Thursday night, so we hit the streets as soon as the hall monitors closed their doors. We slipped off the Howard University campus and headed down Georgia Avenue/Seventh Street, toward the smoke and flames and unceasing sirens that started soon after news hit that Martin Luther…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
