SIGNAL POSTED BY luther | 01.24.02 @ 01:26 PM War Has No Color  [ FILED UNDER: null » ]

"Never before have so many African American broadcast journalists been assigned to cover a conflict outside the United States. The Afghanistan War has become a proving ground for the latest crop of war correspondents. The numbers vary, depending on whom you ask, but at least eight of the American correspondents who have been on the front lines in Afghanistan and Pakistan are black. And at least one of them was a woman, another first."

The above excerpt is from an article I recently wrote for Africana.com entitled The War Reporters, Part 1.