Black People : Newspaper Apologizes for Ignoring Civil Rights News

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Newspaper Apologizes for Ignoring Civil Rights News

Lexington, Ky.- The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page Sunday, apologizing for the newspaper's failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement.

"It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement," the clarification read in Sunday's editions. "We regret the omission."

Former newspaper employees said management tried to minimize what happened locally. The rare march or protest that made front-page news usually involved arrests of demonstrators and was described like a police report.

Robert Horine, a Leader reporter starting in 1958, recalls going to one of the first sit-ins.

"I talked to several of the people seated at the counter, and I had a story for Sunday's paper," he said. "When I got back, the editors said 'Absolutely not.' "

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