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Hillary Clinton addressed the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Friday after not holding a full-fledged news conference in more than seven months. Do the Democrats take Latinos for granted? Here is part of @HillaryClinton‘s answer at #NABJNAHJ16 pic.twitter.com/FOaD5k8MXC — Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August…

Donald J. Trump turned down an invitation to address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NABJ said Wednesday as preparations continued for Friday’s address by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman told Journal-isms that C-SPAN radio and television will carry Clinton’s…

Hillary Clinton will address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Washington on Friday, the two groups confirmed on Monday. “The format is up in the air at the moment and it is unclear if Clinton will take questions, according to a source familiar…

“One implicit message on the first night of the Democratic convention: Even if you regard both major-party candidates as economic and foreign-policy disasters, recall the undocumented immigrants that stood on the stage, the black man with a Latino wife, the first black First Lady of the United States, the embrace of LGBT activists, and try…

Michael Jordan’s surprise announcement Monday that he would give $2 million to organizations working to improve police-community relations was published first on ESPN’s recently launched site The Undefeated because “he had read some of the articles on The Undefeated and liked what we were doing,” editor-in-chief Kevin Merida said he was told. “Jordan’s declaration has…

William C. Rhoden, the “dean of sports columnists” in one appraisal, told readers Sunday that he is leaving the New York Times after nearly 35 years, 26 of them writing the “Sports of The Times” column. The Times offered buyout packages and “50 Guild Newsroom colleagues will leave under this buyout and one Guild member…

Judging from columnists of color who weighed in this week, the declarations from Donald J. Trump that he is appealing to more than a handful beyond his white base are little more than pipe dreams. And that is by design, they said. “At the Republican Convention, this is what it boiled down to,” Julianne Hing…

“Twitter is on an anti-hate speech tear, suspending multiple accounts associated with racist and sexist messages targeting Ghostbusters’ star Leslie Jones earlier this week,” Lauren C. Williams wrote Wednesday for thinkprogress.org. “Chief among them was conservative critic and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. “Yiannopoulos, who gained popularity during the Gamergate movement, is a polarizing figure known…

“A 50-student trip to both conventions has been canceled by administration officials of a historically black college citing security concerns,” Darren Sands reported Monday for BuzzFeed. “In a memo made available to BuzzFeed News, Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) Dean B. Da’Vida Plummer said there were ‘unresolved personnel, operational, and…

“Facebook says it’s having trouble hiring people of color because public schools are failing to educate them properly,” Damon Beres reported Friday for the Huffington Post. “The company is 52 percent white, 38 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black, according to diversity numbers released Thursday. Sixty-seven percent of Facebook employees are male…