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President Obama is preparing to address the nation on Syria Tuesday night after granting seven-minute interviews Monday to six network news programs — but not Univision, Al Jazeera or black-oriented television networks — in which he left open the possibility of a diplomatic solution to the crisis over reports of Syria’s use of chemical weapons.…

Oneida Nation Buys Time in Cities Where Team Will Play Opponents of the Washington Redskins team name are opening a new front in their battle. The Oneida Indian Nation plans to run radio ads in the Washington market Sunday and Monday, and in the markets of the opposing team when the NFL franchise plays its…

African Americans, President Obama’s most loyal voting bloc, nevertheless are breaking with the president over his request for military action against Syria, according to two new surveys. Hispanics likewise join the majority in their opposition to a military response to reports that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. “A sharply divided Senate committee voted Wednesday…

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler engineered a surprise victory over Morgan Spurlock’s 3D concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us at the Labor Day box office, becoming the first movie of 2013 to top the North American chart three weekends in a row,” Pamela McClintock reported Monday for the Hollywood Reporter. The book version, “The Butler:…

Coverage of Latest March Shows Progress, Setbacks Could African American progress since the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom be measured by the roles black journalists assumed in coverage of the march’s commemoration 50 years later? One Journal-isms reader in Washington was disappointed. “I noticed there were no black bylines on the main…

Gannett Removes Stovall as Editor at Binghamton, N.Y. Calvin Stovall was removed Wednesday as executive editor of the Gannett Co.’s Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., in what was described as a cost-saving move. It was but one in a series of personnel decisions that have forced black journalists to run gauntlets created by their…

Concerns Similar to Reasons NABJ Left Two Years Ago The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is re-evaluating its membership in the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, citing reasons of governance, finances and mission, the same reasons the National Association of Black Journalists listed when it pulled out two years ago. On Saturday, NAHJ President Hugo…

“In the opening line of his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom would ‘go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,’ ”…

Journalists Don’t Heed U.S. Warnings to Flee Despite Egypt’s Danger, “There’s a Story Going On” The State Department warned U.S. citizens “to defer travel to Egypt and U.S. citizens living in Egypt to depart at this time because of the continuing political and social unrest,” but for journalists, it was no time to leave. “American…

At least four journalists, including a cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News who was also the husband of a former Washington Post and USA Today reporter, were killed and several were injured in the violence that erupted in Egypt on Wednesday, according to news reports. “Media watchdogs urged Egypt to investigate all attacks on journalists…