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News Overload Is Perfect for Donald Trump
“Quick: Name the biggest story of the week,” Callum Borchers wrote Sunday for the Washington Post. “If a clear answer didn’t just spring to mind, that is probably because there are so many stories to choose from. To wit: “Unverified claims that Russia attempted to compromise President-elect Donald Trump by collecting damaging information about him…
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Watch: Remembering Muhammad Ali on His 75th Birthday
Today, on what would have been Muhammad Ali’s 75th birthday, and coming on the heels of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 88th, we are reminded of how we should follow their example of service to our communities. Ali once said, “The service you do for others is the rent you pay for…
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In the Hot Seat With Miss Robbie and Tim From Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s
Robbie Montgomery and Tim Norman are a mother-and-son duo from St. Louis, and they cook good food. Need we say more? If you’ve answered “yes,” do read on. For the unknowing, Miss Robbie and Tim, of Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s on OWN, are reality-television stars that run a soul food empire, Sweetie Pie’s. They’re cheeky,…
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Who Came to Jim Acosta’s Defense?
CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since you have been attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance?” “No! Not you. No! Your organization is terrible,” Trump shot back. (CNN video)CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since…
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Meryl Streep Inspires Donations for Feisty, Free Press
The Committee to Protect Journalists has received more than 1,200 donations totaling more than $200,000 after Meryl Streep called on the “famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press” to support the press-freedom group during Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards. Courtney Radsch, advocacy director at CPJ, provided Journal-isms with that figure shortly after noon on Tuesday. “We’re going…
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Sinclair Group Ousting Longtime TV Anchor Maureen Bunyan
Maureen Bunyan, a 46-year veteran of television news who is a co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation, is being forced out at Washington station WJLA-TV, an ABC affiliate that Sinclair Broadcasting Group acquired in 2013. Bunyan is a 6 p.m. anchor. The move by Sinclair, disclosed by…
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A Wealth of Questions Remain in Facebook ‘Hate Crime’ Torture
“In Chicago, at least four young black men and women did something truly awful,” Shaun King wrote Thursday for the Daily News in New York. “On a damn Facebook Live video made public Wednesday, they allegedly kidnapped a mentally challenged white man, beat him, humiliated him, cut his hair, and yelled ‘f—k Donald Trump’ and…
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Watch: Ava DuVernay on 13th, Her Life's Work and Magnifying the Beauty of Black People
Some might call Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th prophetic. In just over 90 minutes, DuVernay traces the decisions, going as far back as the end of slavery, that led to the creation of the monstrosity known as the prison-industrial complex—and, thus, explains how it is that modern-day slavery exists. Telling the stories of black and brown…
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NABJ Joins Meeting With Trump Transition Team
The National Association of Black Journalists and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, representing the black press, joined other African American organizations Wednesday in providing a “listening session” for the Donald Trump transition team. The off-the-record session was led by Omarosa Manigault, the former contestant on “The Apprentice” newly named by the president-elect to work on…
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Chicago Police Department Holds Back as Bloodshed Rises: Report
“Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot — the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years,” CBS News reported Thursday in promoting a report scheduled for Sunday’s “60 Minutes.” “Data obtained by 60 Minutes shows that while gun violence spiked, police activity dropped in all 22 of…