Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent The dismissal of Karen Attiah from the Washington Post has become more than a personnel decision. It is a scarlet warning, a reminder of what has long haunted the American press: the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a de…