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Bob Herbert Writes Final N.Y. Times Column
Bob Herbert, the first African American op-ed columnist at the New York Times, is leaving the paper after 18 years, the Times said on Friday. His last column appeared on Saturday. “I have been writing a column for 25 years, nearly 18 at The New York Times,” Herbert said in a note to the Times…
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Elizabeth Taylor Tributes Touch on Race
Story Includes “Cleopatra,” Civil Rights, Michael Jackson “I did a short story on her when she held a news conference in D.C. to promote the play, ‘The Little Foxes’ that she was starring in at the Warner Theater,” Brenda Wilson, then reporting for NPR, recalled for Journal-isms on Wednesday. “The then Mrs. Warner was a…
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The Vine: Is Cory Booker the First Twitter Mayor?
The Newark mayor tells The Root, “I have an audience of over 1 million followers on Twitter — that’s bigger than my state’s largest newspaper.” In the latest installment of our Vine series, he talks with Omar Wasow about his building dynamic coalitions and managing his message in the digital age.
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Black Reporter Clive Myrie Reports in Japan
Black reporters have not been prominent in coverage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami tragedy, though if you tune in to the BBC, you might see Clive Myrie toiling amid the muck. Born in Greater Manchester, he delivers his reports with a British accent. Myrie filed reports this week from a refugee center in Yamagata,…
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AOL Denied Any Layoff Impact, but 2 Exit Black Voices
Despite a statement from an AOL spokesman that AOL’s $315 million purchase of Huffington Post would have “no impact at all” on AOL Black Voices and AOL Latino, two employees of Black Voices had sent farewell e-mails to colleagues the day before. The two are Alexis Garrett Stodghill, programming manager who supervised the Money division,…
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The Vine: Black Leaders Know Obama's Color Boxes Him In
Nearly two decades ago, Ellis Cose ripped the veil of contentment off the black middle class and exposed its seething frustrations with racism and the glass ceiling. In his latest book, The End of Anger (due out in May), Cose tells The Root’s Omar Wasow that African-American leaders understand that it is more difficult for President Obama to appear to…
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AOL Cuts 900 Jobs, Says Black Voices Spared
Ken Strickland, a veteran producer in NBC News’ Washington bureau, was named deputy bureau chief Friday by Antoine Sanfuentes, the recently named Washington bureau chief.The appointment means a Hispanic journalist and a black one will remain in the top two spots in the bureau. “He will work with me to manage the day-to-day operation of…
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Aretha Franklin Debuts New Song for Tavis Smiley
To mark her 50 years in the entertainment business, Columbia Records is releasing an album of Aretha Franklin’s hits from 1960 to 1965. She also has a new single coming out — a remake of Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” — which she played an exclusive preview of on this weekend’s The Tavis Smiley…
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NPR CEO Resigns After Second Major Embarrassment
Departure Follows Second Major Embarrassment Vivian Schiller resigned as president and CEO of NPR, its board of directors announced Wednesday, a day after news broke of a sting by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe in which a surreptitiously recorded video showed the head of NPR’s fundraising arm saying that members of the tea party movement are…
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Does Black or Latino Ownership Matter?
Question Raised as Huffington Takes Over AOL Sites “Now that AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post has closed, Arianna Huffington will take control of AOL Latino, AOL Black Voices and other AOL sites as part of the $315 million deal that puts the Huffington Post under the AOL umbrella,” Richard Prince wrote Monday for the Poynter…