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No African Americans Pictured in Commemorative

Time magazine this week published "Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience," a photo-rich commemorative edition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. No identifiable African Americans are pictured in its 64 pages.

Asked about the omission, Time spokesman Kerri Chyka said by email: "TIME is declining to comment at this time."

The issue is published at a time in its history when the magazine apparently has no African American editors.

"There certainly are African Americans on Time's masthead," spokeswoman Ali Zelenko told Journal-isms by email. However, she did not respond when asked to name them. The masthead lists other staffers in addition to editors.

"I will reiterate that diversity has been, and remains, an important priority at Time," Zelenko said.

A Time announcement said, "To create this special edition, award-winning photographer Marco Grob worked with the editors of TIME to produce an astonishing set of forty portraits coupled with dramatic oral histories from survivors and leaders including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, General David Petraeus], George Pataki, Rudolph Giuliani, Valerie Plame Wilson, Tom Brokaw, Daisy Khan, Howard Lutnick, James Yee, and many more. Additionally, for the very first time, the only four survivors of the attack on Tower Two of the World Trade Center who were above the point of impact tell their stories."

Despite their absence in Time, African Americans' involvement in the story of Sept. 11 has been chronicled in other media outlets.

Of the 343 firefighters killed on Sept. 11, about a dozen were black and a dozen were Hispanic, according to department estimates, the New York Times reported in 2002, when a controversy arose over a decision to create an ethnically and racially diverse statue honoring the firefighters who died. The photograph on which it was based featured three white men.

Jason Thomas, a former U.S. Marine, helped to rescue a pair of Port Authority p..., the Associated Press reported in 2006. He was portrayed by a white actor in the film "World Trade Center."

Sunday's Parade magazine includes an interview with Melodie Homer, whose husband, LeRoy Homer Jr., was the first officer on United Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field after passengers and crew members fought back against terrorists who’d seized the plane’s controls.

The Los Angeles Times has reported that a substantial number of Ame....

Some media outlets went this year to Madeleine V. Leckie Elementary School in Washington, which lost a student, a teacher and two parents when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, killing 184 people.

"Hilda E. Taylor, the teacher killed in the attack, was from Sierra Leone and had o...," Lynette Clemetson wrote in the New York Times in 2006, on the event's fifth anniversary. "Active with the National Geographic Society, Ms. Taylor took students on field trips sponsored by the organization.

"In 2001, Ms. Taylor selected Ms. Brown’s son, Bernard Brown II, a sixth grader with a magnetic personality and a permanent grin. Bernard, 11, was a good student, and Ms. Taylor thought a trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary off California would motivate him to work even harder. Along on the trip were students and teachers from two other Washington schools, who were among those who died in the crash."

Rebecca Blatt, of Washington's WAMU-FM, visited John Milton Wesley, who lost his fiancée, Sarah Clark, a 65-year-old teacher from Columbia, Md., who was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

Sharon Pendana of theRoot.com wrote about Clark and two other victims, Michael Richards and Peggie Hurt.

Albor Ruiz, a columnist at the New York Daily News, told readers about Denise Allen, a highly regarded needlework and folk artist, whose memory quilt ... as part of its opening exhibition.

And the Indianapolis Star published photos by its late African American photojournalist, Mpozi Mshale Tolbert, who spent 11 days documenting rescue work in New York by the Indiana Task Force One. Tolbert died at age 34 in 2006, collapsing in the newsroom.

In the broader view, African Americans might offer a different view of the last 10 years.

In December 2001, Madison Shockley wrote on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle's website:

"While we share the majority's view of Sept. 11, African Americans have a different perspective on Sept. 12 and ther.... We are not nearly as anxious to go bombing around the world in a macho attempt to restore our pride as the biggest, baddest player on the planet.

"According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for People [&] the Press, 39 percent of African Americans surveyed — compared with 17 percent of whites — are doubtful about the prospects of military action. And while support for President Bush is running at 80 percent among the general public, among blacks his support is still below 50 percent."

That October, Cornell Lewis, a pastor at Northend Church of Christ in Hartford, Conn., wrote in the Hartford Courant:

"I began calling African Americans in different parts of the United ...

" . . . I found out through the calls that there is a diversity of opinions among blacks. Some were for defending this country at all costs. Some are ambivalent about embracing this new patriotic fervor. A pastor in New York believed that America's arrogance, insensitivity and ignorance of other cultures and its foreign-policy decisions were to blame for the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. One black woman in Detroit said, `After all America did to other nations, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons.' "

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