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Black Journalists Forum on the State of the Industry Continues OAKLAND, Calif. -- More conversations with the courageous black journalists who broke into mainstream media in the sixties and seventies against the backdrop of the turbulent Black Power Movement to be held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Thursday evening, February 15, 2001 at 7 p.m. with a reception immediately following. The History Project's first "Telling It Like It Is" forum held last December had over 125 guests in attendance and launched the collaboration of the Schomburg and the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education to create an oral history of the journalists' experiences. The distinguished participants on February 15th include: Utrice Leid - Moderator - General Manager, WBAI Radio in New York City. Panelists include Nancy Maynard, author, "Mega Media, How Market Forces Are Transforming News"; C. Gerald Fraser, senior editor, The Earth Times; Earl Caldwell, author, "Black American Witnesses"; Dave Hardy, journalist now writing a book on the landmark discrimination suit which he successfully led against the New York Daily News; Don Hogan Charles, first black photographer at The New York Times. Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture For more information please call Barbara Jones at the Maynard Institute, 510-891-9202 or email her at bjones@maynardije.org. About the History Project: Together, the Maynard Institute and the Schomburg, the premier repository of African American history, will interview the journalists and create an archive of their experiences, complete with notebooks, tapes, photographs and other relevant documents. The oral history project is part of the Maynard Institute History Project which was launched in 1999 with "The Caldwell Journals," a personal account of the Black journalist movement written by legendary reporter and columnist Earl Caldwell. James Murray, head of the oral history division at the Schomburg Center, calls the oral history collection, "one of the most important" for the Schomburg. The Schomburg, a national symbol of the struggles, achievements and aspirations of black people, is a research library that reaches throughout the world to collect and document the lives of people of African descent. The Institute was incorporated in 1977 and provides a number of programs to help the nation's news media reflect the nation's diversity, including Total Community Coverage and its nationally acclaimed management and editing training programs. It was renamed in 1993 to honor the late Robert C. Maynard, an Institute co-founder and the former owner, publisher and editor of The Oakland Tribune.
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