You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...

8:30 AM

Flat Earth news: an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood,distortion and propaganda in the global media

Explosive, controversial and timely — award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies exposes the shocking corruption of today's m...

2:35 PM

White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs(Racism in American Institutions)

Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. Ho...

5:35 PM

Behind the News: Race and Crime

Go behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Race and Crime...

9:09 AM

Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president d...

9:40 AM

Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press

Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of th...

5:42 AM

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism t...

6:17 AM

Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe

Black Television Travels explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strat...

6:28 PM

Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989

Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American...

6:14 PM