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Harlem's Keeper of History Warns, 'Be Vigilant'
(The Root) — Khalil Gibran Muhammad says that he has the best job in the world as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Overseeing one of the world’s great repositories of the African-American and African Diasporic experience is “the perfect marriage of my passion and what my paycheck is all about,”…
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Fast Food Kills More of Our People Than Gangs
(The Root) — In an occasional series, The Root will showcase the talent of spoken-word artists from the around the country. Their stories about race, social justice, community and relationships move us to action, to anger — even tears. Clint Smith teaches English at Parkdale High School in Prince George’s County, Md. In the classroom,…
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Obama Hosts Meetings With Columnists
Obama Likes “Bull Sessions” With Columnists Handful of Black Journalists Have Participated Even as the Obama administration is being criticized as the “most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” in the words of David E. Sanger of the New York Times, President Obama himself is increasingly talking at length in off-the-record sessions with small…
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New York Post Harassment Trial Is On
“In a setback for the New York Post, a district judge on Tuesday dismissed an effort to dispatch a lawsuit from a former employee alleging that she was harassed while at the paper and unlawfully fired,” Sam Stein and Michael Calderone reported for the Huffington Post. “The suit, brought by onetime Post editor Sandra Guzman,…
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First Kanye, Now the Chinese: Kimmel Show in Hot Water Again
“ABC is apologizing for a segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt,” the Associated Press reported on Monday. “The boy’s unscripted comment (‘Kill everyone in China,’ he suggested) came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking…
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Is Unity Dead?
Unity Is Dead, Co-Founders Say Remaining Associations Not Ready to Throw in the Towel The two men credited with the idea for the coalition of journalists-of-color associations say the Unity organization that sprang from their efforts is dead. “UNITY? There is no UNITY,” said Will Sutton of the National Association of Black Journalists. “There hasn’t…
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Grambling Not Hiding Its Financial Troubles
“With the national spotlight on Grambling’s poor facilities, most notably a deplorable weight room, school officials aren’t shying away from the attention,” Sean Isabella reported Tuesday for the News-Star in Monroe, La., near Grambling State University. “The weight room was opened to all media Tuesday morning following new interim coach Dennis ‘Dirt’ Winston’s press conference,…
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Latinos Follow Blacks, Leave Diversity Group
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted Tuesday to leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, following a similar departure two years ago of the National Association of Black Journalists. The vote was 13 to 2 with three board members absent, President Hugo Balta told Journal-isms. Voting no were Nathan Olivares-Gilles and Erin Ailworth. Absent…
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Few Journalists of Color Covered Shutdown
Does a Picture From Capitol Hill Tell the Story? A photo in the Washington Post on Thursday showing reporters outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday night seemed to confirm what some suspected about the coverage of the partial federal government shutdown that ended Thursday: Journalists of color were scarce when it came…
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Light-Skinned Only on New Latino Network?
The new Fusion network, aimed at English-speaking Latino millennials, is following in the footsteps of its Spanish-language counterparts and so far is featuring only light-skinned Hispanics. Asked whether Afro-Latinos will be on the network, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision, spokesman David Ford told Journal-isms by email, “He’s not an Afro-Latino, but Derrick…