Why Black Folks Should Participant in the Black Census Project
New Study Links ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Found in Plastics to 2 Million Premature Births
NBA Player Fired Over Anti-LGBTQ Pride Month Comments Sparks Free Speech Debate
Black Virginia Family Finds Army Discharge Papers That Unlock a Mother’s Secret WWII Legacy
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At NABJ, Unity Dispute Leads to Misstep
The fallout over this month’s decision by the National Association of Black Journalists to withdraw from the Unity coalition took a contentious turn Thursday after members learned that Kathy Y. Times, president of the association, had suspended John Yearwood, an NABJ representative on the Unity board, from the association’s listserve. Yearwood, who is world editor…
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Melvin Van Peebles: The Baadasssss Interview
In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sweetback was the largest-grossing independent film of its time, featuring cinema’s first ghetto hero, played by Van Peebles himself. Today he’s written a graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, and plays regular…
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Jet Magazine Gets New Top Editor
Mitzi Miller Has Written for and With Black Women Mitzi Miller, a writer and editor at women’s magazines who with Denene Millner and Angela Burt-Murray co-wrote two books — “The Vow: a Novel” and “The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life” — has been named editor-in-chief of Jet magazine, Johnson Publishing Co. announced. Miller takes…
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Black in Latin America: Peru, Mexico, Haiti and Santo Domingo
More blacks were transported as slaves to Mexico and Peru than to the United States. Afro-Peruvians have staged a cultural revival, but Afro-Mexicans are much more reticent about their origins. Haitians are proudly black, but brown-skinned Dominicans prefer the term “Indio.” These are just a few of the findings in Black in Latin America, the new…
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Paula Madison to Step Down From NBC Universal
Diversity Advocate “Planned for My Retirement Since . . . 21” Paula Madison, executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBCUniversal, is retiring on May 20 after more than 35 years in the news media, NBCUniversal intends to announce on Monday. Madison, 58, a board member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and…
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ASNE to Help Editors Reach Out to 'New America'
Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…
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Journalists of Color Decline for Third Year
U.S. “Minority” Population at 36 percent; in Newsrooms, 12.79 percent The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported Thursday in disclosing the results of its annual diversity survey. Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, “American newspapers…
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Black in Latin America: Brazil's Complex View of Race and Color
Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated — a lot more complicated. In his new PBS series, The Root’s editor-in-chief examines the complexities of race and color in Brazil, the country with the second-largest number of people of African descent in the world after Nigeria —…