Philadelphia Magazine issued an apology on its website Tuesday afternoon after an onslaught of negative reaction to the cover of its October 2015 issue.
The lead story on the diversity of education in city schools features a photo that has no African American students, even though the featured school is 60 percent non-white.
Tom McGrath, the magazine’s editor, took responsibility for the photo, which shows seven students from Albert M. Greenfield Elementary School sitting along a brick wall outside its Center City campus.
“We blew it,” McGrath wrote. “To include not even one African American child on the cover fails to reflect not just the diversity that exists at the Greenfield School, but also that within the city of Philadelphia.”
“I’ll offer no excuses here about process,” he added. “At the end of the day, I chose this photo for the cover, and it was without question the wrong choice.” ...
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