A New Yorker staffer questions racial equality at the magazine — and becomes the talk of the town

Her conclusions, reached this month: Virtually not one of the 40,000-plus characteristic articles and evaluations printed by the journal over the a long time had been edited by a Black individual, and solely a tiny fraction of the whole have been written by Black, Latino and Asian American ladies — not shocking, maybe, in {a magazine} whose historical past stretches to 1925. However in a number of slender classes (such because the journal’s Feedback part), she determined that the New Yorker’s writers have been much less various over the previous 30 years than in earlier a long time.