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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Wrong Kind of Shoutout to Obama
Even Fox News Calls Reporter’s Breach Disrespectful “The interruption stunned White House correspondents and television viewers,” Brian Stelter wrote Friday in the New York Times. “And it clearly surprised President Obama, too.” A reporter for the conservative Daily Caller website interrupted Obama’s Rose Garden announcement of a change in immigration policy in what some reporters…
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Newsweek Spiked Obama-Trayvon Cover
Newsweek Spiked Cover of Obama as Trayvon Martin ” . . . Posted on the Newsweek Tumblr — social media, in action! — is a video of the editor, herself, discussing a spiked cover that involved posing Barack Obama as Trayvon Martin,” Foster Kamer wrote about Tina Brown Tuesday for the New York Observer. “She explains: ” ‘It was a Trayvon [Martin]…
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Googling the Racism Toward Obama
Theory Holds Bias Could Cost President Key States “Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the popular vote in 2008 and 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard, wrote Sunday in the New York Times. “Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against…
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Black Network Plans 5 Hours of News
Soul of the South Releases Promotional Video A new African American-oriented television network has posted a video preview of its plans for an unprecedented five hours of daily news programming, which the network’s primary creator, Edwin Avent, said he hopes to have on the air on Labor Day weekend. Avent, former publisher of Heart &…
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Cocktails and Policy Talk: Education, More
The Root’s senior political correspondent, Cynthia Gordy, moderated the 100 Black Men of Greater Washington, D.C.’s first Cocktails and Policy panel discussion on June 6 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The night’s panelists — who included the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president of the Hip-Hop Caucus; Ivory A. Toldson, research analyst…
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Black Churches Fight to Keep Pastors on Cable
Black Churches Demonstrate to Keep Pastors on Cable About 35 demonstrators representing a coalition of 34,000 black churches marched in front of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington Wednesday, saying many viewers of faith-based television programs would lose access to them if the FCC lets expire a rule requiring cable systems to carry the shows.…
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Black-Music Memories From The Root
June is Black Music Month, and The Root is celebrating with an analysis of some of the most memorable turning points in hip-hop, R&B, disco and go-go music. We take a look back 15, 25, 35 and 45 years ago to relive some of black music’s most pivotal moments. Watch The Root staff take a…
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Obama Bashed in Weekend News Media?
Obama Bashed in Weekend News Media President Obama was roundly bashed in the national news media over the weekend — at least by those originating in New York and Washington. In the New York Times, the Sunday Review section began a Maureen Dowd column on its section front. “The president who started off with such dazzle now seems…
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Fire Official Out After Dissing Reporter
Mayor “Unappoints” Deputy Who Slapped Away a Mic “Detroit deputy fire commissioner Fred Wheeler has been removed from office following a physical altercation with WJBK reporter Charlie LeDuff on Tuesday,” Andrew Gauthier reported Thursday for TVSpy. “Working on a story about filthy conditions at a number of Detroit fire houses, LeDuff approached Wheeler on the…
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Newspaper's Plans Reveal Digital Divide
In New Orleans, Broadband Goes to Whites, Affluent The decision by the owners of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans to offer a printed newspaper only three days a week, delivering the news online the rest of the time, raises a question particularly relevant to communities of color: What about those who don’t have access to…