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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…

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…

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…

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…

“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,”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

New NBC Anchor Sensitive to Race, Tech, Western Issues Lester Holt says he has “a strong sensitivity” to the story of race and that “It’s a story that, among others, we’ll be going at aggressively” as newly named permanent anchor of “NBC Nightly News.” In a telephone interview as he began his role as the…