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African Americans and the Press

Author James McGrath Morris traces the career of a pioneering journalist in "Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, First Lady of the Black Press," a new biography; Irving Phillips Jr. and Irving Phillips III talk about their family's 70 years of photography, three generations capturing the African-American experience in Baltimore and beyond; and Benjamin Phillips IV, president and director of global markets for the Afro American Newspapers, talks about the AFRO in the age of digital news.