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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Do the Media Ignore Voter Discrimination?
Media Fail to Detail U.S. Voter Disenfranchisement “As the nation’s first African-American president seeks re-election, new barriers are being proposed or implemented that could disenfranchise voters of color. Are mainstream media doing enough reporting on these efforts and identifying ones designed to reduce the impact on voters of color?” Nadra Kareem Nittle wrote Thursday for…
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Joseph Williams Out at Politico
Right Wing Seized on Tweets, Comments on Romney Joseph Williams, the Politico reporter whose comments and tweets about Mitt Romney led last week to a suspension, is leaving the publication. His exit provides a cautionary tale about how “a tiny group of organizations with Internet access, a money pipeline and next to no credibility can…
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Fox, CNN Get Health Care Ruling Wrong
Initial Reports Say Individual Mandate Struck Down “The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key provision of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama, the so-called individual mandate that requires people to have health insurance,” CNN reported on Thursday, correcting its initial report that the individual mandate had been struck down. ” . .…
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WSJ Intern Fired for False Quotes
An intern at the Wall Street Journal who is Miss Black America – Connecticut, graduated from Yale University and said she wanted to “represent African American women in a positive light,” is no longer at the Journal after the newspaper said she fabricated sources and quotes just three weeks into the internship, according to news…
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Valerie Jarrett Works Captive Audience
NABJ Protocol Broken With Campaign-Style Speech Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, broke with protocol and delivered a campaign-style speech to the National Association of Black Journalists in New Orleans Saturday night as the association’s annual awards banquet got underway. Jarrett ticked off what she considered the Obama administration’s accomplishments and said, “We need…
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Republicans Spurn NABJ Convention
Democrats Eagerly Accept Journalists’ Invitations The Republican National Committee and the putative GOP standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, have ceded the National Association of Black Journalists convention to the Democrats, rejecting invitations to send speakers or panelists that the Democrats eagerly accepted. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the convention Wednesday on its opening night, delivering…
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NABJ to Stay Out of Minority-Journo Group
Juan Gonzalez, an Originator of Coalition Idea, Agrees The National Association of Black Journalists should not go back to the Unity coalition “at this time,” a commission appointed by NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. recommended Tuesday, and Juan Gonzalez of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, a Unity founder, told Journal-isms that the commission…
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Did Rodney King's Beating Lead to Riot?
Shorthand Misses Scope of Anger Unleashed in ’92 “I saw my page 1 proof tonight with the [AP’s] Rodney King hed on it,” Robin Washington, editor of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune, messaged Journal-isms on Sunday. “Rodney King, whose beating led to LA Riots, dies ” … and changed it to: “Rodney King, whose beating…