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Gwen Ifill, Powerful Role Model, Dies at 61
Eartha Kitt, the politically active actress and chanteuse whose “Santa Baby” still lights up holiday playlists, was on her deathbed in 2008 when The HistoryMakers, an organization honoring black achievement, decided to honor Kitt with a tribute to be televised on PBS. The entertainer had only one condition, and it was the same one as…
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Lone Black Reporter Covering Trump Campaign Reveals Good, Bad, Ugly
Race was not high on the list of concerns listed in analyses of Donald J. Trump’s victory Tuesday, but the self-described only black reporter who covered Trump in the field wrote Wednesday that, to her, the subject was omnipresent. “In this, my experience was not unique. Nearly all those who covered Trump have been booed,…
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Black Media Sounds Off on Trump’s Victory: ‘This Lets Us Know Exactly Where We Stand’
“It’s really hard to get beyond ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator, said on that cable network after Donald J. Trump delivered his victory speech at 2:43 a.m. on Wednesday. Robinson might have been the first African American to speak on national television after Trump accepted his status…
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Inmates for Clinton, Guards for Trump
Hillary Clinton’s use of the term “superpredators” in 1996 to describe some black youths—a term for which she has apologized—has served as justification for some to declare that they cannot support her bid for president. Such an argument apparently hasn’t gained traction with inmates of color in at least one storied prison. For them, Clinton…
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2 Cleveland Reporters Fired After Seeking Tickets to Jay Z Concert at Hillary Clinton Event
“WEWS Channel 5 ‘Good Morning Cleveland’ anchor Jackie Fernandez and meteorologist Somara Theodore are no longer with the station,” Joey Morona reported Tuesday for cleveland.com. Scott Jones reported for his TV news tipsheet FTVLive Monday that the two “were fired after posting that they were standing in line to get free Jay Z tickets” for…
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Watch: Brothers’ Winning Star Wars Fan Film Is a Force to Be Reckoned With
Earlier this year, the Star Wars Fan Film Awards announced their Filmmaker Select Award winner live to the world. It was TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story, created by Samtubia and Samgoma Edwards, two brothers from the Bronx, N.Y. They first gained notice in the early 2000s with their viral YouTube video series, The Young Hov Project,…
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TV One Implicated in Leak to Donna Brazile
Signs point to TV One, the African American-owned cable television network that partnered with CNN to present a March presidential town hall with the Democratic candidates, as the source of the leak to Democratic strategist Donna Brazile about at least one question to be asked during the town hall, two media reporters told readers on…
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Watch: Anna Deavere Smith on Injustice and Her New 1-Woman Show
Created, written and performed by the multitalented Anna Deavere Smith, Notes From the Field is a one-woman show that compiles over 250 interviews exploring the school-to-prison pipeline and its effect within communities of color in the United States. “Everyone knows about justice. Probably from the time that you could talk, when you were 2 years…
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Watch: ‘Name That Trap Song’ With Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry
Just because Brian Tyree Henry plays Paper Boi, a budding rapper in the FX series Atlanta, doesn’t mean that he actually knows trap music IRL. Atlanta, whose 10-episode season ends Tuesday (and which has been renewed for a second season), has done a phenomenal job depicting the vastness of the black experience, including the role of rap…
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New Ad Puts Racial Taboo to Bed
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 15-year-old, was abducted and beaten to death, his body mutilated, after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in Virginia and several other states. Both cases are…