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Let’s Talk About Black Women’s Daily ‘Indignities’
Spicer, O’Reilly Spawn #BlackWomenAtWork 2 Black Employees File Complaint Against Fox News Omarosa Manigault Walks Out on Black Press Almost 50 Years Ago, the News Industry Was Called Out on Race. How Should That Be Commemorated? Wall St. Journal Staffers Want Diverse Management Univision Says GOP Is Shunning Network Gannett Cuts Newsrooms at 3 Tennessee…
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Watch: Artist Lina Iris Viktor on the Misconceptions of Blackness in Art, and Painting With Pure Gold
Artist Lina Iris Viktor is known for creating works using a palette of black, majorelle blue and pure 24-karat gold, but she refuses to be tied down to any particular aesthetic. She has a background in film, photography and performance art, so her work is expressed across multiple media. When we spoke, she was intensely…
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‘Blue Chip’ Activist Roger Wilkins Dies
Insider; Editorialist at N.Y. Times, Washington Post . . . I Said, ‘They Don’t Know What to Make of You’ Escobar Rises, Days Moves in Philly Shakeup Journalists Assaulted by Pro-Trump Supporters L.A. Times Ventures ‘On Edge in Trump’s America’ Could Obama Sue Trump for Defamation? NAHJ, Gay Journalists Publish Spanish Stylebook Racial Words That…
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Watch: Women at Work: This First Lady Redefines the Role
Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is celebrating women from a wide range of professional industries in our video series Women at Work. “People expect women to be a certain way. They expect black women to be a certain way,” says Chirlane McCray, the wife of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. “You…
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‘Is Truth Dead’ Under Trump?
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus report on their meeting Wednesday with President Trump. They answered his question, “What do you have to lose?” (NBC News) “Donald Trump is not on the cover of Time this week, and that must gall him,” Will Oremus wrote Thursday for Slate. “The president is the subject of the…
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Watch: Black Teen Myles Loftin Creates the Most Colorful and Refreshing Images of Black Men in Hoodies
Myles Loftin is a 19-year-old artist with heart and a yearning to see himself represented in media as a young black man who is not a thug, dangerous or gangster. He smiles. He makes jokes. He wears hoodies. So he created HOODED, a photo and video project that features young black men in colorful hoodies.…
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Started From the Blog, Now We’re Here: The Black Snob’s Danielle Belton Triumphs Over Mental Illness
We’re living in a DIY culture, and there’s no one more DIY than bloggers. Blogging is a means of communication, self-expression, culture, news and so much more. And the people who create blogs are typically ridiculously talented and effortlessly wear the responsibility of being a voice for their culture. Bloggers are inspiring, to say the…
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Reporting by Women Declining at Networks
“A Women’s Media Center report examining who provides coverage for 20 top news outlets shows that female journalists continue to report less of the news than do male journalists — with the disparity especially glaring in television,” the center reported Wednesday. “The WMC’s ‘Divided 2017′ study finds that at ABC, CBS, and NBC combined, men…
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What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didn’t, About Diversity
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as “the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.” Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective “white” before “working class”…
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Watch: Women at Work: Meet the Audio Engineer Who Moves to Her Own Beat
Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is celebrating women from a wide range of professional industries in our video series Women at Work. “Being a woman and a music producer and an engineer is a very special task,” says Ebonie Smith, who works as an audio engineer, music producer and studio coordinator at Atlantic…