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Race Questions Helped to Undermine Trump in 1st Debate
Lester Holt answered any doubt about how prominent a role race would play in the first presidential debate of the 2016 homestretch. More than 80 million people watched, setting a record in the 60-year history of televised presidential debates, Brian Stelter reported Tuesday for CNN Money. Holt lobbed a series of questions that helped most…
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Will Lester Holt’s Race Influence His Presidential-Debate Questions?
“Lester Holt is carrying the weight of the nation,” Dylan Byers reported Friday for CNN Money. “On Monday, the NBC Nightly News anchor will preside over what may be the most highly anticipated presidential debate in American history. . . .” Callum Borchers of the Washington Post noted that “Holt . . . is the…
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Charlotte Observer Says Release the Keith Lamont Scott Video
“Did Keith Lamont Scott have a gun in his hand when officers confronted him in a University City apartment complex parking lot Tuesday afternoon?” the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer editorialized Wednesday. “Or was it a book? “Police say the former. Relatives and protesters say the latter. “What we know is that, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg police resist disclosure…
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If You're Young, Fabulous and Female and in the Philly Area, You Don't Want to Miss This!
Are you young, fabulous, female and in the Philadelphia area? Then come on out to join The Root at our event on Wednesday, Sept. 28. YFF: Philadelphia will be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be a fabulous girls’ night out of networking, intriguing panel discussion…
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ASNE, in Reversal, Releases Newsroom-by-Newsroom Diversity Figures
The American Society of News Editors reversed itself Tuesday and released diversity figures on individual U.S. newsrooms, concluding that “the need for transparency outweighed a good-faith effort to improve response rates on the annual survey,” new ASNE President Mizell Stewart III, vice president for news operations at Gannett and the USA Today Network, said in…
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Powell, Obama Maintain Media Help Trump
Amid the eye-popping statements by Colin Powell revealed in hacked emails made public Tuesday was his belief, seconded this week by President Obama, that news media coverage was helping Donald J. Trump. That help was magnified when the media criticized solely on the “optics” Hillary Clinton’s statement that half of Trump’s supporters are bigoted, Ta-Nehisi…
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Black Commentators: Clinton’s ‘Deplorables’ Comment Is True
“On Friday, offering remarks at a fundraiser in Manhattan, Hillary Clinton gave her view of Donald Trump’s supporters and caused a scandal by telling the truth,” Jamelle Bouie wrote Sunday for Slate. His views were shared by a remarkable number of commentators of color — Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington…
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Watch: Steve Harvey Faces His ‘Twin’ on Family Feud
How does it feel to stand in front of someone who looks just like you (no relation)? Well, Steve Harvey knows all about that. The cold part is that it might sting just a little bit when, as the Family Feud host noted, your twinsie “looks a little better than you” do.
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ASNE Ends Disclosures of Diversity at Individual News Outlets
The American Society of News Editors has ended its longstanding practice of listing the number of journalists of color at individual news organizations, a tool in measuring each news outlet’s progress on diversity, Adam Maksl, who has directed ASNE’s annual diversity survey for the past four years, told Journal-isms Friday night. “We will be posting…
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The Root’s Young Futurists, Where Are They Now: Simone Biles
Simone Biles is a shining star. Her light shines brightly on and off the gymnastics floor. The 19-year-old has amassed many accolades, including 10 world championships—and most notably, Biles won four gold medals in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. If that’s not enough, the champion gymnast has a forthcoming autobiography to be…