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Fox News MIA in Uproar Over Sandra Bland’s Jail Death?
Social Media Elevate Tragic Case of Sandra Bland A social media campaign demanding attention to the case of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail has borne fruit in the mainstream media, with pieces on Friday’s “CBS Evening News” (video) and “ABC World News,” but, according to Scott Eric Kaufman, writing Friday for Salon,…
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Obama’s Cosby Remarks Suggest a Return to His Blunt Approach From 1st Term
No Timidity in President’s Condemnation of Rape April D. Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks broke through the flood of questions about the potentially historic Iran nuclear deal at President Obama’s news conference Wednesday and told Journal-isms that she was “shocked” by the president’s answer. Her question was about Bill Cosby. “Earlier this year, on…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book Gets Endorsement From Toni Morrison, the Only One He Wanted
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the national correspondent for the Atlantic, is becoming the go-to guy on race relations for television bookers. He has been getting near-unanimous praise for his new book “Between the World and Me,” and Benjamin Wallace-Wells of New York magazine recalled on Sunday that he also won the endorsement that meant more than any other. “Late this…
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Emotions Run High as Confederate Flag Comes Down at SC Statehouse
Networks Go Live for South Carolina’s Historic Move “At 10:10 a.m. Friday, the sun hit the east side of a Civil War monument at the Statehouse. The Confederate battle flag rustled in the wind above 10,000 people gathered to watch it come down,” Christina Elmore and Deanna Pan reported Friday for the Post and Courier…
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Report: Nearly All of America’s Prosecutors Are White Men
Who’s Prosecuting? Almost Always, He’s White and Male Women of Color Said to Be Especially Vulnerable “While the nation’s prisoners are predominantly people of color, the officials who put them there are overwhelmingly white,” Emily Peck wrote Tuesday for the Huffington Post, “to an extent that surprises even those who study racial bias in the criminal justice…
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Court Documents: Bill Cosby Paid Off Accusers and Found Alleged Victims Through a Modeling Agency
“America’s Dad” Admits Giving Women Sedatives for Sex “Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he got Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he admitted giving the sedative to at least one woman and ‘other people,’ according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press,”…
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Columnist: It’s Nice That Univision Dumped Trump Over Mexican Insults, but the Network Doesn’t Reflect Those Immigrants
More Dump Trump Columnist Sees Irony in Univision’s Defense of Mexicans “Rapper Flo Rida, the Macy’s department store chain and football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith all had something in common on Wednesday: They’re the latest to distance themselves from Donald Trump following his remarks about Mexican immigrants,” David Bauder reported Wednesday for the Associated…
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Latinos Commend NBC Universal for Kicking Donald Trump to the Curb
Company Drops Miss Universe, Miss USA After Protests “Today, hundreds of thousands of Latinos and non-Latinos cheer NBC Universal and its parent company Comcast for severing their relationship with Donald Trump for his bigoted, racist, anti-Latino rant,” the National Hispanic Media Coalition said on Monday. “NBC Universal/Comcast, to its credit, moved to disassociate itself from…
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CNN Anchor Praises Obama, and Then a Dead Mic
President’s Eulogy in Charleston Made for Riveting TV In full preacher mode, President Obama delivered riveting television Friday when he eulogized the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator, rising political star and one of the nine people killed last week at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. “President Barack Obama used his eulogy for…
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NABJ President on Obama’s and Lemon’s Uses of the N-Word: ‘The President Was Trying to Make a Valid Point’
NABJ President Rebukes Don Lemon Over N-Word Stunt A stunt by CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he held up the ultimate racial slur and asked viewers whether they found it offensive has drawn a rare rebuke from the president of the National Association of Black Journalists, which only two years ago saw Lemon co-host…