Why Black Folks Should Participant in the Black Census Project
New Study Links ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Found in Plastics to 2 Million Premature Births
NBA Player Fired Over Anti-LGBTQ Pride Month Comments Sparks Free Speech Debate
Black Virginia Family Finds Army Discharge Papers That Unlock a Mother’s Secret WWII Legacy
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Minority Journos Meet Without Black Group
Estimated 2,000 Register, Short of Sponsorship Goal The Unity alliance opened its first convention without the National Association of Black Journalists in Las Vegas on Wednesday, with Executive Director Onica N. Makwakwa estimating the registration at “over 2,000” and telling Journal-isms that the coalition fell $200,000 short of its sponsorship goals. It had sought $1.25…
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Will Unity Address Affirmative Action?
Will Reinvented Unity Address Affirmative Action? “Like the Olympics, it happens every four years. But you won’t see a lot of spandex at the convention of minority journalists called Unity, happening this week in Las Vegas,” Emil Guillermo wrote Monday in his blog for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. “You won’t see…
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CNN Chief to Step Aside for 'New Thinking'
Blacks, Latinos Want More Diversity Progress “Unable to reverse a dramatic ratings decline, CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton announced Friday that he is resigning at the end of the year,” as Joe Flint reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times. The move creates an opportunity for the pioneering cable news network — praised in past…
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Were They Gay? Who's Sure? Who Cares?
Rumor, Fact Follow Sherman Hemsley, Sally Ride Deaths On Facebook Tuesday, Joyce Ladner, a former interim president of Howard University, posted a notice about the death of actor Sherman Hemsley of television’s “The Jeffersons” and praised him as “out and proud.” Friends approved with a “like.” No point in being in the closet one’s whole…
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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…