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Inmates for Clinton, Guards for Trump
Hillary Clinton’s use of the term “superpredators” in 1996 to describe some black youths—a term for which she has apologized—has served as justification for some to declare that they cannot support her bid for president. Such an argument apparently hasn’t gained traction with inmates of color in at least one storied prison. For them, Clinton…
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2 Cleveland Reporters Fired After Seeking Tickets to Jay Z Concert at Hillary Clinton Event
“WEWS Channel 5 ‘Good Morning Cleveland’ anchor Jackie Fernandez and meteorologist Somara Theodore are no longer with the station,” Joey Morona reported Tuesday for cleveland.com. Scott Jones reported for his TV news tipsheet FTVLive Monday that the two “were fired after posting that they were standing in line to get free Jay Z tickets” for…
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Watch: Brothers’ Winning Star Wars Fan Film Is a Force to Be Reckoned With
Earlier this year, the Star Wars Fan Film Awards announced their Filmmaker Select Award winner live to the world. It was TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story, created by Samtubia and Samgoma Edwards, two brothers from the Bronx, N.Y. They first gained notice in the early 2000s with their viral YouTube video series, The Young Hov Project,…
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TV One Implicated in Leak to Donna Brazile
Signs point to TV One, the African American-owned cable television network that partnered with CNN to present a March presidential town hall with the Democratic candidates, as the source of the leak to Democratic strategist Donna Brazile about at least one question to be asked during the town hall, two media reporters told readers on…
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Watch: Anna Deavere Smith on Injustice and Her New 1-Woman Show
Created, written and performed by the multitalented Anna Deavere Smith, Notes From the Field is a one-woman show that compiles over 250 interviews exploring the school-to-prison pipeline and its effect within communities of color in the United States. “Everyone knows about justice. Probably from the time that you could talk, when you were 2 years…
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Watch: ‘Name That Trap Song’ With Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry
Just because Brian Tyree Henry plays Paper Boi, a budding rapper in the FX series Atlanta, doesn’t mean that he actually knows trap music IRL. Atlanta, whose 10-episode season ends Tuesday (and which has been renewed for a second season), has done a phenomenal job depicting the vastness of the black experience, including the role of rap…
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New Ad Puts Racial Taboo to Bed
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 15-year-old, was abducted and beaten to death, his body mutilated, after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in Virginia and several other states. Both cases are…
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Hacked Emails a Nightmare for Fox's Juan Williams
The most recent batch of hacked emails distributed by WikiLeaks included the cell phone number of Fox News commentator Juan Williams, prompting supporters of Donald Trump to call the number at all hours to insult Williams and accuse him of being a Democratic Party stooge, Williams wrote on Monday. The incident follows criticism of WikiLeaks…
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Key New York Times Exit Worries Black Journalists
Dana Canedy, a champion of newsroom diversity inside the New York Times, is leaving the company to write books and work on a movie based on her memoir, the Times announced Friday, prompting a meeting of about a dozen African American Times journalists concerned about the news organization’s commitment to diversity. Executive Editor Dean Baquet…
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Will There Be a ‘Rigged’ Election—Against People of Color?
The headline coming out of Wednesday’s Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate was Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the Nov. 8 election results, following his claims that the process was “rigged.” In fact, many observers have written, it is Republicans who are “rigging” the election through voter suppression of people of color. The 2016 election…