Bala Baptiste
Biographic Data
| ID | 8668768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bala Baptiste |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bala |
| FAMILY NAME | Baptiste |
| SIGNATURE | BAPTISTE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miles College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
EEOC vs. the Times-Picayune
A 1968 complaint by a black, blue-collar worker, Wendall A. Payne, at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, led to a federal appeals court in 1976 issuing a consent decree that required the newspaper, one of the major dailies in the South, to hire more black employees including journalists. At other dailies nationally in the late 1960s to early 1970s, racial integration occurred in the newsroom because newspapers were affected by provisions of the C…
African Americans and Civil Rights Journalism
Do we need twenty-four hours of James Brown? No we don’t. If we’re going to talk about freedom and self-determination, we need to hear our Black heroes performing in other art forms. We need to hea
Race and Local Television News
WDSU-TV, the first New Orleans broadcast station in the city to hire a Black reporter and thus racially integrate, claimed that its liberal-leaning owner, Edgar Stern Jr., independently decided to hire Bill Rouselle in 1968, rather than being influenced to do so by federal entities and other factors. Through archival materials, newspaper content, federal reports, and exclusive in-depth interviews of journalists of the period, this study argues to…
Curtis J. Austin, Up against the Wall
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Curtis J. Austin, Up against the Wall
Race and Local Television News
WDSU-TV, the first New Orleans broadcast station in the city to hire a Black reporter and thus racially integrate, claimed that its liberal-leaning owner, Edgar Stern Jr., independently decided to hire Bill Rouselle in 1968, rather than being influenced to do so by federal entities and other factors. Through archival materials, newspaper content, federal reports, and exclusive in-depth interviews of journalists of the period, this study argues to…
African Americans and Civil Rights Journalism
Do we need twenty-four hours of James Brown? No we don’t. If we’re going to talk about freedom and self-determination, we need to hear our Black heroes performing in other art forms. We need to hea
EEOC vs. the Times-Picayune
A 1968 complaint by a black, blue-collar worker, Wendall A. Payne, at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, led to a federal appeals court in 1976 issuing a consent decree that required the newspaper, one of the major dailies in the South, to hire more black employees including journalists. At other dailies nationally in the late 1960s to early 1970s, racial integration occurred in the newsroom because newspapers were affected by provisions of the C…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Civil rights (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · African american (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works)