Mal Goode Reporting

Mal Goode Reporting
Author: Liann Tsoukas
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0822991438
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Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for local radio. With his basso profundo voice resonating on the airwaves, Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience. Race prevented him from breaking into television until Jackie Robinson dared ABC to give him a chance. Goode was uncompromising in his belief that network news needed Black voices and perspectives if it were to authentically reflect the nation’s complexities. His success at ABC initiated the slow integration of network news. Goode’s life and work are remarkable in their own right, but his struggles and achievements also speak to larger issues of American life and the African American experience.

Hearings, Reports, Public Laws

Hearings, Reports, Public Laws
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2534
Release: 1967
Genre: Educational law and legislation
ISBN:
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Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith

Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith
Author: Wayne Dawkins
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040041418
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This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players. In a decade-long battle, Lacy and Smith tirelessly advocated for the inclusion of Black players in the major leagues, reporting in the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier, respectively. Both sports writers covered players in the Negro Leagues, following off-season games in places like Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. In 1947, Lacy’s and Smith’s work helped break through MLB’s racial barriers when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Over the coming years, Lacy and Smith, on individual career trajectories but sharing a common goal, would report on the dissolution of the Negro Leagues and future MVPs such as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Elston Howard. The book considers the lasting legacies of these sports journalists, both recognized in the writers’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Through its thoughtful analysis of Lacy and Smith’s groundbreaking impact on America’s pastime, this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in sports history and journalism and Afro-American history.

TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition

TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition
Author: Kimberly Meltzer
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010
Genre: Television broadcasting of news
ISBN: 9781433108952
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Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. It provides a historical overview of the impact they have had on American journalism, uncovering the changing values, codes of behavior, and boundaries of the journalistic community.--[book cover].

The Fifth Wound of Christ

The Fifth Wound of Christ
Author: Eric Watford
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304681548
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A strange message from his father on death row sends a young man on a worldwide quest to decipher the message. He travels throughout the African diaspora, from the vibrant religions of Brazil, to the shores of Portugal and even to the Door of No Return in Africa. The clues lead him full circle back to America until realizing that the final clue lay within the verses of The Holy Bible. Hidden in the message is the answer to an age old mystery: Who am I?

Rickey and Robinson

Rickey and Robinson
Author: Harvey Frommer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 163076003X
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Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.

African American Almanac

African American Almanac
Author: Lean'tin Bracks
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Total Pages: 1108
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1578593808
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The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph is presented through a fascinating mix of biographies—including 750 influential figures—little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 445 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering politics, education, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, sports, literature, music, dance, theater, art, film, and television, chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected African Americans over the centuries, followed by biographical profiles of hundreds of key figures, including Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Amiri Baraka, Daisy Bates, George Washington Carver, Ray Charles, Bessie Coleman, Gary Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michael Eric Dyson, Duke Ellington, Medgar Evers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eric H. Holder Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeBron James, Mae C. Jemison, Martin Luther King Jr., Queen Latifah, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Liles, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Mosley, Elijah Muhammad, Barack Obama, Gordon Parks, Rosa Parks, Richard Pryor, Condoleezza Rice, Smokey Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Betty Shabazz, Tavis Smiley, Clarence Thomas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, C. Delores Tucker, Usher, Denmark Vesey, Alice Walker, Booker T. Washington, Kanye West, Reggie White, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X. Explore a wealth of milestones, inspiration, challenges met, and lasting respect! The African American Almanac’s helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.

Reference Library of Black America

Reference Library of Black America
Author: Harry A. Ploski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1990
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:
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Presents information on all aspects of Afro-American life including politics, employment and income, education, religion, literature, performing arts, science and medicine, and sports.