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Eye Candy From The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event
Some of the women who attended The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female event at the Long View Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday were questioning if and when they should quit their jobs and devote themselves full time to a startup idea. Others got super candid and described how they were in the middle of…
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Charles Blow’s Son on Encounter With Campus Police: Focus on Unreported Police Brutality, Not Me
Yale U. Concedes Drawing of Handgun Was Questionable “As a noted memoirist and New York Times columnist who writes often about race, Charles Blow has spoken about the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, deaths that sparked a national debate over how police treat African-American men,” Ashley Fantz reported Monday for CNN. “On…
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Veteran Chicago Reporter Helps Free Wrongfully Convicted Man
“Even After I Retired, This Case Still Bothered Me” “After 20 years I was finally able to get a wrongfully convicted man named Tyrone Hood out of prison,” Renee Ferguson, who retired as an investigative reporter for Chicago’s NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in 2008, messaged Journal-isms on Friday. “I figured out that he was innocent during my…
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Muslim Expert Banned From MSNBC for Saying Bobby Jindal ‘Might Be Trying to Scrub Some of the Brown Off’
Governor “Might Be Trying to Scrub Some of the Brown Off” MSNBC has banned from its airwaves a Muslim human rights lawyer and commentator who said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, an Indian American, “might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin” by claiming that there are “no-go zones” for non-Muslims in…
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Civil Rights Worker: Selma Is ‘a Fine Film,’ but Eyes on the Prize Is More Accurate
Filmgoers Should Have a Chance to See the Documentary Judy Richardson was a worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia from 1963 to 1966, the time depicted in the movie “Selma.” She began a career in filmmaking as associate producer of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985,”…
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A Moving Tribute to Michel du Cille
500 Urged to Shine a Light, Like Michel du Cille His photojournalist wife wanted friends and colleagues to know that “If he were here today, he’d be reminding us of the real story: 8,429 lives lost to Ebola and counting. “He’d be saying, ‘Remember the real story. Remember the thousands of people in Liberia, Sierra…
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Black Greeks Arguably Got Sorority Sisters Axed From VH1
VH1 Says “No Mas” on “Sorority Sisters” Members of black Greek organizations who were offended by “Sorority Sisters,” a VH1 reality show that they said degraded them, are nearing a victory. “VH1 has finally said no mas to its detractors: the remaining three episodes of Atlanta-based ‘Sorority Sisters’ are being burned off three in a…
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Boko Haram Massacre in Nigeria Played Second Fiddle to the Terrorist Attacks in Paris
Paris Overshadows Boko Haram’s Biggest Massacre “France spent the weekend coming to terms with last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left 17 dead. The country mourned, and global leaders joined an estimated 3.7 million people on its streets to march in a show of unity,” Maeve Shearlaw reported Monday for Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “In…
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor Reflects on Lessons From Ferguson Coverage
“Many Leaped to Conclusions Often Abetted by Social Media” Gilbert Bailon, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was chosen for the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award last month by the National Press Foundation for leading the newspaper through the tumultuous events in Ferguson, Mo., last year and their aftermath. In this previously…
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Wanted: Anyone Who Is Young, Fabulous and Female in Washington, DC
Attention, all the young, black and gifted women in Washington, D.C.: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female series will kick off 2015 in D.C. on Jan. 27 with on-air personality and journalist Jummy Olabanji (Good Morning Washington, ABC7 News at Noon) as the event’s moderator. For those who are unfamiliar with YFF, join The Root…


