Studying 500 Black Writers in the New York Times

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Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II

Today, we just published this article, "How The 'New York Times' Covers Black Writers" for Public Books. We discuss our findings from a dataset of 500 black writers mentioned in articles in The New York Times from 1970 - 2021. 

As a complement to our article, you can check out this interactive data visualization. By hovering over the names of dots, you can see how many articles reference various writers. 

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