The American media spotlight drifted from progressive to conservative black intellectuals.

Evidence

Given this historical legacy, it seems both odd and gratifying that academics, talk show hosts, the popular media, the national press, and a host of scholarly journals within the last decade, have heaped lavish attention on the meaning and relevance of an emerging group of black public intellectuals in the United States, though it must be noted that while the media first focused largely on progressive black public intellectuals, it soon adjusted itself to the temper of the times and largely centered on the work of conservative black intellectuals such as Shelby Steele, Randall Kennedy, and Thomas Sowell. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2613

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2613