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The Top 10 Media Diversity Stories of 2016
At the end of 2016, the Washington Post announced it was bucking a trend: It was adding dozens of journalists. Yet journalists of color are all but missing from the top ranks of the Post newsroom. In another metro area with substantial numbers of people of color, Allan Lengel was reporting for Deadline Detroit, “The…
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Bill O’Reilly Casts Himself as the Spokesman for Whites
“Fox News host Bill O’Reilly went on a white supremacism-laden rant Tuesday night, saying that the effort to abolish the Electoral College is an attempt by ‘the left’ to take away power from the ‘white establishment,‘ ” Emily C. Singer reported Wednesday for aol.com. “O’Reilly went on to denounce Democrats for being ‘reliant on the…
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Watch: The Root Staff Executes the Battle of the Fruitcakes
The holidays are here, and what would the holidays be without fruitcake? For many, the answer would be “a time to share love with friends and family, just without a fruitcake.” Touché. Still, here at The Root, we acknowledge that to some, fruitcake is a tradition. So The Root staff decided to put this Christmas…
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Win-Win: Former NFL Player Mike T. Brown Innovates With Charity-Based Sports App
Some people play in online fantasy and sports platforms for the love of the game, while others play for cash, but what if you could play and give back? Win-Win is not your typical fantasy sports platform. Created by former NFL linebacker Mike T. Brown (also known as Mike Tauiliili), Win-Win is designed to connect sports fans to charities as opposed to the…
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Richard Prince’s Book Notes, Part 2: More Holiday Offerings
Below, our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them—part two of two. Part one was published on Monday. Jonathan Abrams, an accomplished writer for the Bleacher Report who has worked for ESPN’s late Grantland site, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, has “Boys…
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Mykelti Williamson on Fences, Acting While Black and the Power of the Mind
When you’ve been handpicked by Denzel Washington to sign on to a multimillion-dollar film that he’s directing, you know you’re doing something right. And for actor and director Mykelti Williamson, who plays Gabriel in Washington’s rendition of Fences, this is indeed the case. It’s safe to say that as a director, Washington was judicious in…
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NY Times Top Editor Agrees That Diversity ‘Is a Real Issue’
“On Sunday, the New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote a column that cut deep to the bone about the lack of racial and ethnic diversity and the ‘newsroom’s blinding whiteness,‘ ” Tanzina Vega wrote Monday for CNN Money. Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent in Venezuela, appears in a Times house ad.…
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Richard Prince’s Book Notes, Part 1: Holiday Offerings
Our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them—part one of two—includes: a forthcoming memoir by the late Coretta Scott King that is 17 years in the making; the frustrating history of African Americans in the newspaper comics; the story of an escapee from war-torn Biafra; an…
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Watch: Husband-and-Wife Team Create Africa's 1st Brand of Foldable Flats
In 2012 Taffi Ayodele was working for a luxury brand in South Africa and had to attend many events in high heels. Being a true New Yorker, she kept a pair of foldable flats handy when she was on the go, and her African girlfriends were mesmerized by the concept. Her husband, J.G. Ayodele, did some…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Milestone: 4.5 Hours With the President
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine writer, has managed a feat apparently accomplished by no other black journalist. He was granted 4½ hours on the record with President Obama, access he turned into a 17,000-word cover story for the January/February issue of the Atlantic. “Talked three times in person. Total of about 4.5 hours. No idea…