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Michael Jordan’s surprise announcement Monday that he would give $2 million to organizations working to improve police-community relations was published first on ESPN’s recently launched site The Undefeated because “he had read some of the articles on The Undefeated and liked what we were doing,” editor-in-chief Kevin Merida said he was told. “Jordan’s declaration has…

William C. Rhoden, the “dean of sports columnists” in one appraisal, told readers Sunday that he is leaving the New York Times after nearly 35 years, 26 of them writing the “Sports of The Times” column. The Times offered buyout packages and “50 Guild Newsroom colleagues will leave under this buyout and one Guild member…

Judging from columnists of color who weighed in this week, the declarations from Donald J. Trump that he is appealing to more than a handful beyond his white base are little more than pipe dreams. And that is by design, they said. “At the Republican Convention, this is what it boiled down to,” Julianne Hing…

“Twitter is on an anti-hate speech tear, suspending multiple accounts associated with racist and sexist messages targeting Ghostbusters’ star Leslie Jones earlier this week,” Lauren C. Williams wrote Wednesday for thinkprogress.org. “Chief among them was conservative critic and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. “Yiannopoulos, who gained popularity during the Gamergate movement, is a polarizing figure known…

“A 50-student trip to both conventions has been canceled by administration officials of a historically black college citing security concerns,” Darren Sands reported Monday for BuzzFeed. “In a memo made available to BuzzFeed News, Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) Dean B. Da’Vida Plummer said there were ‘unresolved personnel, operational, and…

“Facebook says it’s having trouble hiring people of color because public schools are failing to educate them properly,” Damon Beres reported Friday for the Huffington Post. “The company is 52 percent white, 38 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black, according to diversity numbers released Thursday. Sixty-seven percent of Facebook employees are male…

TV One’s hour-long NewsOne Now with Roland Martin has regained the viewers it lost with its September shift from 9 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET, Alfred C. Liggins III, president and CEO of the parent Radio One, Inc., told Journal-isms on Wednesday. Liggins said he would like to “ultimately expand the show to a full multi-hour…

“One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites—including seven policemen—in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police,” begins a summary of Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 by William Ivy Hair, published in 2008. “An…

It is possible that contemporary America has seen three days as stunning, violent and racially charged as those that ended this week, but the nation certainly did not have the technology then to bring so much to the public so swiftly. Cellphone videos. Live transmissions via social media. 24-hour news cycles. For good measure, a…

With the exception of ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” according to the Rev. Al Sharpton, the broadcast network morning shows ignored Tuesday’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, an African American, by a Baton Rouge, La., police officer. On cable news, meanwhile, Tyler Cherry and Alex Kaplan of Media Matters for America reported that their analysis…