Posts Tagged as ‘Diversity’

April 18, 2009

Story Behind Go! Cover Photo of Kissing Interracial Couple

I wrote a story for Poynter Online this week about a Go! cover photo of an interracial couple and the racially charged comments it generated.
To find out more about the issue, I talked with editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, including Kurt Greenbaum, editor of social media, about how they handled the comments:

When you’re [...]

February 13, 2009

Voices/Perspectives of African Americans Flourish on The Root

In timing with the 100th anniversary of the NAACP and the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln this week, I wrote an article for Poynter’s diversity blog about The Root. An online magazine, The Root features content from leading black writers, as well as information about genealogy. I found the site to be particularly interesting because [...]