Welcome to The Authentic Voice Web site, where you will find a collection of stories to choose from, to review with your newsroom, or with your class and students. Welcome to The Authentic Voice Web site, where you will find a collection of stories to choose from, to review with your newsroom, or with your class and students. Also click here to find out how to buy The Authentic Voice book and DVD.
Orphans of History
This special report by The Sacramento Bee in 2000 is an insightful narrative series on the Hmong people and their attempts to cope with American culture while trying to retain their own identity. Senior writer Stephen Magagnini received the American Society of Newspaper Editor's distinguished writing award for diversity for this series. Read his essay on writing Orphans of History. (Photo credit: Sacramento Bee/Anne Chadwick Williams)
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The New Faces of Wine
For generations, wine service has had a decidedly European bent, thanks to that continent's lineage of accomplished winemaking. Sommeliers -- those in charge of buying wines, crafting wine lists and recommending fine wines to diners -- were typically white men. No more. Many in the industry now say they are seeing more minority wine buyers, wine stewards and sommeliers. Carolyn Jung reports for The San Jose Mercury News. (Photo: Rick E. Martin/San Jose Mercury News)
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The New Segregation
School segregation is on the rise in North Carolina, concentrating minority children in high-poverty schools. Raleigh News and Observer reporters Tim Simmons and Susan Ebbs report on the new segregation and the parent gap -- how the relationship between black parents and schools is becoming a focus point for efforts to raise minority achievement. (Photo credit:The News & Observer)
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The Troubles at King/Drew
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service was awarded to The Los Angeles Times for its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital. The 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service was awarded to The Los Angeles Times for its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital. (Photo credit: The Los Angeles Times)
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Walking Home
This two-part series by Barry Yeoman, freelance reporter and former reporter for The Independent, a weekly in Chapel Hill, N.C., highlights the lives, loves and tragedies within a rural Baptist congregation with a growing Latino population. (Photo credit: The Independent Weekly)
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Stories from The Authentic Voice
Read excerpts from stories highlighted in The Authentic Voice book and DVD from The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Record and Lee Enterprise Newspapers. Read excerpts from stories highlighted in The Authentic Voice book and DVD from The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Record and Lee Enterprise Newspapers. (Photo credit: Sarah L. Voison/The Washington Post)
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