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By Marlon A. Walker The Rev. Al Sharpton urged mourners paying tribute to George E. Curry Saturday to keep alive Curry’s dream of reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine and said he would write a check to help. “If ever we need a strong, independent, ethical black press, we need it now,” Sharpton said. The…

George E. Curry will be memorialized this weekend by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton at services in his native Tuscaloosa, Ala., his fiancee, Ann Ragland, told Journal-isms on Tuesday. The funeral for the champion of the black press is scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Weeping Mary Baptist Church, 2701 20th St.,…

George E. Curry, a veteran journalist who championed the black press and was reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine, died Saturday at 69, according to a message from his sister’s Facebook account. “It is with deep regret to inform everyone that my brother, George passed away earlier today,” said the message, from the account of…

“Swimmer Ryan Lochte was dubbed ‘The Ugly American’ on Friday as U.S. media turned on the once beloved Olympic champion, saying his made-up tale of being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro played into the worst stereotypes of Americans abroad,” Jill Serjeant reported Friday for Reuters. But not all in the news media were…

“Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management — and his white nationalist fanboys love it,” Betsy Woodruff and Gideon Resnick wrote Wednesday for the Daily Beast. “The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News — where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers. “White…

The 19-year-old son of a Chicago police officer returning home for a visit from St. John’s University in New York where he was majoring in journalism was shot and killed Sunday morning, Chicago and New York news organizations reported. “The shooting took place in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side just after midnight, according…

Bill Clinton, acting as a surrogate for his wife’s presidential campaign, told Asian American journalists and voter activists Friday, “You want a president like Hillary Clinton who sees you as part and parcel of the quilt of diversity . . . We should be expanding the definition of ‘us’ and shrinking the definition of ‘them,’…

In a half-hour podcast [audio] recorded Wednesday by the Futuro Media Group, led by public broadcasting’s Maria Hinojosa, four journalists of color gave fresh takes on the longstanding question of whether they feel “pigeonholed” by covering race. Their short answer was they’re covering today’s big story. They also discussed stories on race that the media…

“John Saunders, one of ESPN’s most visible and versatile commentators and a founding member of the board of directors for The V Foundation for Cancer Research, has passed away,” ESPN announced on Wednesday. “He was 61.” “Saunders died Wednesday morning,” A.J. Perez reported for USA Today. “The cause of Saunders’ passing was not immediately known,…

Donald J. Trump’s campaign reportedly cited a scheduling conflict in declining an invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, and a parody Twitter account using the name Donald Trump Jr. — one of his chief advisers — surely won’t win the GOP candidate much forgiveness from people…