Dr. King’s Favorite Pastime and More Little Known Facts on the Anniversary of His Murder
Anti-Affirmative Action Groups are Now Coming for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Scholarships
Why an Ex-Syracuse Basketball Player Chose Deportation to Sudan
New Study: DNA Testing Could Be the Key to Saving Black Women With Breast Cancer
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Debate Pundits: Where Was Obama?
If the progressive cable news channel MSNBC represents President Obama’s base, then that base was stunned by the president’s lackluster debate performance in his first face-off with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday night. Competitor CNN’s flash poll of registered voters who watched the debate found that 67 percent said Romney won, while only 25…
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TJ Holmes: 'I Finally Made It'
BET launched “Don’t Sleep” Monday night, its news/talk show vehicle for longtime CNN newsman T.J. Holmes. “We are promoting this show on-air, in-market — we have a Don’t Sleep Tour bus that has been to nearly 20 cities including the RNC, DNC and CBC!” spokeswoman Jeanine D. Liburd told Journal-isms by email Monday, referring to…
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Rep. John Lewis Talks Voting Rights
(The Root) — For an episode of This Week in Blackness, Elon James White caught up with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) last month during the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference to get the congressman’s perspective on voter-ID laws and voter suppression in the lead-up to Election Day in November. Lewis, a civil rights legend,…
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1,300 Applications for 4 Jobs at NPR
NPR Hiring for New Race-Relations Reporting Team In a sign of hunger for the topic or perhaps an indicator of the journalism job market, or both, NPR has received more than 1,300 applications for four positions on its new race-relations reporting team, according to Matt Thompson, the NPR journalist who is heading the team. “We’re…
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Is 'Illegal Immigrant' an Insulting Term?
Vargas Reopens Debate on “Illegal Immigrant” “Jose Antonio Vargas is a man on a mission,” Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the New York Times, wrote on Monday. “The journalist turned immigration activist wants news organizations to stop using the term ‘illegal immigrants,’ which he finds disparaging and inaccurate. He’s particularly focusing on The Times and…
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Univision Forums With Obama, Romney Make News
Obama Concedes Failure to Reform Immigration Univision’s televised forums this week with President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney were ratings and journalistic hits, as Univision moderators Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos posed questions they maintained would not be asked in the mainstream debates scheduled to start Oct. 3 in Denver. Ramos said as…
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Romney Tries to Clean It Up at Univision
Candidate Repeats “100%” in Try for Damage Control “Mitt Romney, recognizing the damage to his campaign, Wednesday night backed off his statement from earlier this year that he wouldn’t contend for the support of the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay income taxes,” Jonathan Martin reported from Coral Gables, Fla., for Politico. ” ‘My…
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U.S. Asks Google to Block Video
Company Restricts Access Abroad but Not at Home “Google [Inc.] rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East,” Gerry Shih reported for Reuters from San Francisco on Friday. “The Internet company said it…
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Obama's Achilles' Heel: A Writer's Soul?
“He Can Be in a Room but Detach Himself” A writer granted rare access to President Obama for six months said Wednesday that the politically costly charge that the president is aloof grows out of a personality trait he shares with journalists: “It’s the personality trait of a writer.” Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of…
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No Mrs. O: Washington Post's DNC Mishap
Neighbors Buttonholed Staffers Over Missing Coverage “My favorite caller of the week was an erudite, sharp-witted woman who said she had been a Post subscriber since 1962,” Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton wrote Sunday to readers of the Washington Post print edition. “After going through her entire paper on Wednesday morning, she said, ‘I couldn’t believe…