In high school I edited the campus paper and covered high school sports for the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner. That summer convinced me the that the L.A. Times was not a good place to work for a Black man. These events led me to co-found, with William Lewis of KNBC and the L.A. Times’ Valerie Shaw, the Black Journalists Assn. The same year, I became a journalism professor at USC and received a $250,000 grant from L.A. Times owner Times-Mirror Company to establish the Media Institute for Minorities. Racism at the Los Angeles Times has been a source of many experiences in my life, so I applaud the newspaper for its gesture of apology.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 03, 2020 10:02 UTC