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Beyond Fame With Marsha Ambrosius
The term “baller” just got a face-lift from Marsha Ambrosius, the beauty who’s running game in the music industry and burning up the charts with her hit single “Hope He Cheats on You.” Contributing Editor Anji Corley caught up with the singer, formerly of the duo Floetry, backstage at this month’s For Sisters Only concert,…
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Johnson Publishing Sells Historic Headquarters
College to Own First Black-Owned Building in Chicago’s Loop Johnson Publishing Co. has sold its historic building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to Columbia College Chicago, the company announced on Tuesday. It has not yet selected a new home and is to remain in the building for 18 months. “The sale of 820 S. Michigan is…
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NPR Confronts Fallout From Williams Affair
NPR’s board of directors has approved hiring a law firm to review the network’s handling of the termination of Juan Williams’ contract, and the network has taken steps to address concerns raised by journalists of color. NPR has hired a second African American on-air reporter, Alex P. Kellogg of the Wall Street Journal, plans to make up for…
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The Root Video: Henry Louis Gates and Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, her magnificent opus on the flight of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and West. Wilkerson has challenged long-standing assumptions that blacks moved simply for economic…
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Will Black Boys Have Skills to Be Journalists?
Report Calls Underachievement a “National Catastrophe” “Black males continue to perform lower than their peers throughout the country on almost every indicator,” according to a new report from the Council of the Great City Schools, which calls itself “the only national organization exclusively representing the needs of urban public schools.” Its report, released Tuesday, is…
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Hatin' on 'Colored Girls'
After Perry Film Debut, Writers Compete for One-Liners The hatin’ on Tyler Perry’s film “For Colored Girls” was so intense that Ronda Racha Penrice, writing on theGrio.com, had to find solace in the opening weekend’s box office take: “Negative reviews from respected film critics like The Hollywood Reporter’s Kirk Honeycutt, who proclaimed Tyler Perry’s For…
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Beyond Fame With Cornel West
Anji Corley, contributing editor for The Root, goes Beyond Fame in an interview with celebrity scholar Cornel West this week, chatting with the celebrity scholar about his new public radio show with Tavis Smiley called Smiley & West, where single black women can find a good man, and whether or not Jay-Z is his homeboy.…
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Angela Burt-Murray to Step Down as Essence Editor-in-Chief
Sheryl Tucker Returns to Run Magazine on Acting Basis Angela Burt-Murray, editor at Essence magazine for the last five years, “has announced her plan to leave her post and relocate with her family to Atlanta,” John Huey, editor-in-chief of Time Inc. told staff members on Friday. “We are beginning our search for a new editor,…
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Newspapers' Last Black Sports Editor Leaving
Milwaukee’s Garry D. Howard to Lead Sporting News Garry D. Howard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the last remaining African American editing the sports section of a mainstream daily newspaper, is leaving in December to become editor-in-chief of the weekly Sporting News. “We thank him for his dedication, enthusiasm and passion for exceptional journalism,” Martin…
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Andrew Breitbart Becomes Headache for ABC
Network, Blogger Feud After Invitation to Be Part of Coverage Andrew Breitbart, the blogger who released the edited tape that made Agriculture Department manager Shirley Sherrod seem like a bigot, is causing grief for ABC News, which invited him to be part of its election night coverage. Even as Color of Change and other media…