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French Mag Issues Blackface Apology
The French magazine that published a photo of a darkened 16-year-old white girl under the title “African Queen” apologized Wednesday “to anyone who may have been offended.” But the magazine’s management offered a different explanation of what the photo represented than did the photographer, and the controversy again shone a light on the lack of…
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'The Root Live' Video: Making a Difference
(The Root) — For the Feb. 25 and final taping of The Root Live, about being an agent for change, host Harriette Cole talked to NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, entrepreneur Tracey Edmonds and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad about how they’ve made a difference for black communities. “Don’t be…
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Adam Serwer: Success Is Not Your Own
(The Root) — At last year’s The Root 100 gala, Mother Jones reporter and 2012 The Root 100 honoree Adam Serwer told us that he owes his success to the African Americans who came before him. “Your success is not your own. Someone put in the work to help make you who you are,” he…
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CNN's New Journalism Hires Are All White
CNN President Jeff Zucker met Monday in Atlanta with leaders of the National Association of Black Journalists in the wake of Zucker’s failure to include journalists of color among his first few appointments and the elimination of his “Starting Point” morning show hosted by Soledad O’Brien. NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. said he wanted…
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Jet's Aged Fantasia Cover: A Bad Choice?
Magazine Stands Behind 10-Year-Old Cover Shot Relying on public relations photos for your cover shots can be messy, as Jet magazine is finding out. Jet editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller on Friday issued a defense of the magazine’s use of a 10-year-old photo of cover subject Fantasia. “JET magazine is honored to have Fantasia grace the cover…
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Soledad O'Brien Makes Deal With CNN
“Soledad O’Brien will leave CNN’s morning show in the spring, but she won’t be leaving the cable news channel altogether,” as Brian Stelter put it Thursday for the New York Times. “Ms. O’Brien, who is well-known for CNN documentaries like ‘Black in America,’ said Thursday that she would form a production company and continue to…
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'The Root Live' Video: Switching Careers
(The Root) — For the Feb. 19 taping of The Root Live, about making the leap and switching careers, host Harriette Cole — who knows a bit about this topic herself — talked to Marie Johns, deputy administrator with the U.S. Small Business Administration; Demetria L. Lucas, entrepreneur, author of A Belle in Brooklyn and columnist; and…
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Schomburg Chief's Tricks of the Trade
(The Root) — Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem in New York City, told us at last year’s annual The Root 100 gala, where he was honored, that he owes a great deal of his success to his parents. They instilled in him “a sense of…
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Alec Baldwin vs. Black Photographer
“Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post photographer a racial epithet, a ‘crackhead’ and a ‘drug dealer’ during a confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting police to intervene,” Leonard Greene reported Monday for the New York Post. The story was noticed almost immediately by the right-wing Breitbart.com. “Isn’t it great to…
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Obama Visits His 'Unhinged' Hometown
Teens Skeptical President Can Change Gang Mindset “President Barack Obama returned to Chicago for a few hours Friday to address the high-profile gun violence that continues to plague his hometown and suggested the solution is not only more gun laws, but community intervention and economic opportunity in impoverished neighborhoods,” John Byrne and Dahleen Glanton reported…