In the gentle warmth of an April evening 42 years ago, a young reporter crouched in his radio car on a Washington, D.C. street watching the violent uprising after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis. Bob Maynard, calm and professional under fire, dictated details of the chaos back to his colleagues in the Washington Post newsroom. Amid that dangerous duty, he resolved to work toward a day when an aspiring black journalist “could get a chance without having to put quite so much of his life on the line.” His work over the next quarter century demonstrates that he kept that pledge.
Election night is always exciting in a newsroom, and it was no different on Tuesday as members of the 
Many aspiring journalists as well as media executives could benefit from listening to Katharine Weymouth, The Washington Post’s publisher and CEO of Washington Post Media.
When I asked a group of college journalism students to name African-American journalism pioneers, names such as Ed Bradley, Bryant Gumbel and Oprah Winfrey came quickly.
As I reflect on UNITY: Journalists of Color 2008, six R's come to mind - reunion, recession, retention, retraining, recruitment and re-energized.
