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On Nov. 10, Joe Scarborough claimed that New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet declared in August that “the New York Times’ job and journalists’ job now was to defeat Donald Trump.” Scarborough acknowledged Tuesday to the Times’ Jim Rutenberg, pictured, that he misspoke. After excoriating reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign as “cheerleaders”…

Eartha Kitt, the politically active actress and chanteuse whose “Santa Baby” still lights up holiday playlists, was on her deathbed in 2008 when The HistoryMakers, an organization honoring black achievement, decided to honor Kitt with a tribute to be televised on PBS. The entertainer had only one condition, and it was the same one as…

Race was not high on the list of concerns listed in analyses of Donald J. Trump’s victory Tuesday, but the self-described only black reporter who covered Trump in the field wrote Wednesday that, to her, the subject was omnipresent. “In this, my experience was not unique. Nearly all those who covered Trump have been booed,…

“It’s really hard to get beyond ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator, said on that cable network after Donald J. Trump delivered his victory speech at 2:43 a.m. on Wednesday. Robinson might have been the first African American to speak on national television after Trump accepted his status…

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…

“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…

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…