I attended the funeral of a D-Day veteran last month. Lester Lease landed in the hell of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.

A week later I attended the funeral of a veteran of another kind of war, Marcia Slacum Greene.

Bobbi Bowman (February 11, 2010)

Dear Chris,

Initially, so many people weighed in after your State of the Union remarks, the ones in which you said you actually forgot our first black president was black, that I thought there wasn’t much for me to add to the conversation. But then I had an experience recently that made me realize that while a lot of people are talking about you, it doesn’t sound like too many people are talking with you.

Dori J. Maynard (February 11, 2010)

Is "racist" an outmoded term, used to avoid instead of understand?

Media Coverage and Diversity Across the Fault Lines: A Conversation between Sally Lehrman and Dori Maynard

                          Please join us!

Don’t make the mistake my job-seeking friend did. She isn’t on LinkedIn yet because she’s waiting to be invited. 

Tom Ballantyne (05/14/09)

Recently, after talking to several different peers of mine I was once again reminded of how one's ethnicity, upbringing and surrounding environment can result in people having different perspectives on the same situation. For example, when Oscar Grant was shot and killed in front of hundreds of citizens at the Fruitvale Bart Station in Oakland there was only one thought racing through my head: another example of racially motivated police brutality.

Lindsey Caldwell (05/04/09) 

Arianna Huffington launched a new nonprofit venture focused specifically on investigative journalism. The Huffington Post Investigative Fund will be headed by Nick Penniman, founder of the American News Project, which will be folded into the fund.

Woody Lewis (04/22/09)

As newspaper companies struggle with advertisers and audiences continuing to migrate to the web, the horrifying and at times mind-numbing rate at which the industry appeared to be imploding has take the question of diversity virtually off the table. As one newspaper CEO said to me a while back, "Diversity isn't only off the front-burner, it's not even in the kitchen."

Dori Maynard (04/13/09)

Selling the new world: Bloggers weigh in on the future of journalism in general, and newspapers in particular.

Woody Lewis (03/29/09)

The New York Times reports that a number of people in the metropolitan area no longer pay for cable television. While the monthly cost is more noticeable in today's economy, especially for recent college grads who might be out of work, the fact that this cohort looks increasingly to Web sites such as Hulu for their programs is significant, not just for cable companies, but also for newspapers.

Woody Lewis (03/15/09)

Thomas Peele of the Chauncey Bailey Project reports that, according to a statement taken by the Alameda County District Attorney's office from a confidential informant, Yusuf Bey IV, former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery, bragged about ordering the murder of Bailey in 2007.

(03/07/2009)

After opening remarks from New York Times CEO Janet Robinson, Tim O'Reilly spoke about the digital future of newspapers.

Woody Lewis (2/24/08)

The Maynard Institute and the Chauncey Bailey Project recognize August 2, 2008 as the one-year anniversary of the murder of Chauncey Bailey. View video for more information about the current state of the investigation.

Wil Pomart (08/01/08) 

As the crowd awaits the appearance of Barack Obama at the Unity Convention in Chicago, 1980s music is blasted out into the large ballroom at McCormick Center West.

Kara Andrade (07/27/08)