Jackie Robinson was well retired before Moneta Sleet became the first Black journalist ... For most of a century, when the members of the Pulitzer Board saw evidence of White journalists going ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born ... prominence as a writer for black church newspapers, Wells took part ...

Harper — the “mother of African American journalism” — died at 85. Her legacy continues to point the way forward for the ...