You are so right!! Many many didn't know Boyd. Only novel
readers knew Campbell. And I'm scared to think of how many of our students did
not watch "60 Minutes." This is going to be like when we learned about
Booker T. Washington. We should definitely do something. I'll help
someone but I don't want to head anything.
Professor Kathleen Fearn-Banks
Department of Communication
University of Washington
Website: www.kathleenfearn-banks.com
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Sybril Bennett wrote:
> My question is where does the Black community mourn? When I turn on the
> television, I want to see tributes, memorials and images of our proud
> soldiers. This is where a major disconnect exists. Young people are
> constantly barraged with Nelly, Beyonce and Jay Z and som don't have any
> earthly idea who Boyd, Campbell and Bradley are.
>
> Is there a way for us to collaborate to create a video tribute as an
> educational tool?
>
> Peace,
> Sybril Bennett
> Belmont University
>
> Anita Fleming-Rife wrote:
>
>> Yet another loss. Read below.
>>
>> FYI-----This was sent from AABJ yesterday.
>>
>> Deidre
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: Deborah Simon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:07 PM
>> Subject: FW: notable passings
>>
>> Dear Members,
>>
>> It was been a year for losses. Earlier this month we lost Ed
>> Bradley. But since then two notable print journalists have passed
>> away.
>>
>> Gerald M. Boyd, the only black journalist to rise to the highest
>> newsroom ranks at the New York Times, died on Thanksgiving at his
>> New York home after battling lung cancer, his wife, journalist
>> Robin D. Stone, told Journal-isms.
>>
>> .
>>
>> "He was at home with his family," she said.
>> Boyd, 56, stepped down as managing editor on June 5, 2003, with
>> the paper's executive editor, Howell Raines, in the wake of the
>> scandal involving Jayson Blair, the reporter whose extensive
>> fabrications "laid bare deep discontent within the staff over
>> their leadership," as the Times reported at the time.
>> His wife said Boyd "should be remembered for his contributions to
>> journalism, to the people who worked in the field, to diversity in
>> journalism and to humanity."
>>
>> Journalist-turned-novelist Bebe Moore Campbell, who was diagnosed
>> <http://www.bebemoorecampbell.com/e/PressRelease-March5.2006a.pdf>
>> with a neurological condition earlier this year, died peacefully
>> at home at 12:15 a.m. Pacific time Monday, her publicist, Linda
>> Wharton Boyd, told Journal-isms. She was 56.
>> Campbell had written for the New York Times Magazine, the
>> Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony and Black
>> Enterprise and had been a regular commentator for National Public
>> Radio's "Morning Edition." Her novels include "Brothers and
>> Sisters," "Singing in the Comeback Choir" and "Your Blues Ain't
>> Like Mine."
>> "In 'Your Blues Ain't Like Mine,' her first novel, Campbell's
>> ability to delve into the minds of multifarious characters and
>> relate their truths was riveting. She also demonstrated her
>> uncanny adroitness at helping readers sort through their own
>> heated feelings about race while considering opposing views.
>> Campbell so skillfully navigated this same risky ground with her
>> second novel, 'Brothers and Sisters,' that it is now a text for
>> several college race-relations courses," Patricia Elam wrote in a
>> 1998 review in the Washington Post.
>>
>> Ray Metoyer
>> AABJ President
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anita Fleming-Rife
>>
>> I lift up mine eyes from whence cometh my help. . . .
>>
>>
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