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'Guys With Kids' Stars on Black Family Fun
(The Root) — Vanessa Huxtable is back home on the Peacock Network this fall. Tempestt Bledsoe, the actress who portrayed the middle sister on The Cosby Show, is back on the channel that made her famous, but this time she’s married with children. Bledsoe and Anthony Anderson are part of the ensemble cast that make…
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NeNe Leakes on Loving the Gay Community
(The Root) — The love affair between Atlanta’s most notorious housewife, NeNe Leakes, and TV’s most prolific producer-writer, Ryan Murphy, continues this fall on NBC. Leakes, who plays Coach Roz Washington on Murphy’s Glee, will swap her sweats for platform pumps in The New Normal, a show about a same-sex relationship in which she portrays…
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Premature Defense of Paterno Statue?
Pundit Admits Opining on Paterno Statue Too Soon File this under “it sounded good at the time” or “too-infrequent admissions by commentators that they aren’t always right.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine blogger, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times last week in which he argued that the statue of Joe Paterno, the disgraced…
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Reporting Tragedy: Columbine to Aurora
Denver Post Editor Greg Moore Says Today’s Coverage Will Have More Impact Than That of ’99 Massacre The mass shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded dozens early Friday presents the kind of story that tests news organizations, particularly in an era of cutbacks. The Denver Post, the dominant…
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Aurora Shooter's Race Was First News
Racial ID Presaged Suspension of Other Media Rules News consumers learned that the man suspected of shooting 70 people in Aurora, Colo., on Friday was white before they knew his name. NPR described the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 others as a “white male in his early 20s. “On…
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Raspberry Service Scheduled for National Cathedral
Funeral services for William Raspberry, the retired Washington Post columnist who died of prostate cancer Tuesday at age 76, have been scheduled for Thursday, July 26, at 10 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral, according to journalist Walt Swanston, a family friend. A reception is to follow from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Washington…
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DOJ to Act on Racial Disparity in Pardons
U.S. to Review the Record After ProPublica Stories “The Obama administration has asked for a fresh review of an Alabama federal inmate’s commutation request and directed the Justice Department to conduct its first ever in-depth analysis of recommendations for presidential pardons, according to several officials and individuals involved,” Dafna Linzer reported Wednesday for ProPublica. “The…
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Experts Talk Solutions to Black Obesity
On Friday, July 13, policymakers, doctors, health advocates and food and beverage professionals convened at the Washington Post building in downtown D.C. for The Root’s Focus on Obesity conference, which is part of our yearlong Black, Fit & Healthy series. The daylong conference was all about identifying problems and finding solutions. Keynote speaker Sam Kass,…
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Columnist William Raspberry Dies at 76
Cancer Claims Pioneer Among Mainstream Pundits William Raspberry, retired Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the Washington Post and its first African American in that role, died early Tuesday at his home in Washington, his wife, Sondra, told Journal-isms. He was 76 and died of metastatic prostate cancer. “We had a full 45 years together,” she said.…
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ESPN Writer Gets Into Trouble
Lynn Hoppes, senior director/entertainment at ESPN, former newspaper sports editor and former president of Associated Press Sports Editors, has been scolded for “journalistic laziness” after the Deadspin website found that he had been “shall we say, over-reliant on Wikipedia as a research tool,” as Deadspin put it. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz told Journal-isms Friday by…