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Obama Chides Media for Birther Story
President Releases Birth Certificate “There comes a moment in almost every American presidency when the commander in chief turns media critic in chief,” David Folkenflik reported Wednesday for NPR. “For President Obama, that moment occurred Wednesday morning. He released his birth certificate to quell persistent rumors that he was somehow not born in this country…
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Obama Chides Media for Birther Story
President Releases Birth Certificate “There comes a moment in almost every American presidency when the commander in chief turns media critic in chief,” David Folkenflik reported Wednesday for NPR. “For President Obama, that moment occurred Wednesday morning. He released his birth certificate to quell persistent rumors that he was somehow not born in this country…
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ABC Gives Birther Allegations Free Ride
Amanpour Fails to Challenge Franklin Graham Assertions ABC-TV’s Christiane Amanpour gave a prominent Easter Sunday platform to the “birther” views of the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham, failing to correct him when he claimed that President Obama had not produced his birth certificate. Graham also questioned whether Obama was…
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Black in Latin America: Cuba's Racism Problem
Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special, it’s clear that “racism of the heart” is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, “Declaring that racism…
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At NABJ, Unity Dispute Leads to Misstep
The fallout over this month’s decision by the National Association of Black Journalists to withdraw from the Unity coalition took a contentious turn Thursday after members learned that Kathy Y. Times, president of the association, had suspended John Yearwood, an NABJ representative on the Unity board, from the association’s listserve. Yearwood, who is world editor…
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Melvin Van Peebles: The Baadasssss Interview
In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sweetback was the largest-grossing independent film of its time, featuring cinema’s first ghetto hero, played by Van Peebles himself. Today he’s written a graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, and plays regular…
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Jet Magazine Gets New Top Editor
Mitzi Miller Has Written for and With Black Women Mitzi Miller, a writer and editor at women’s magazines who with Denene Millner and Angela Burt-Murray co-wrote two books — “The Vow: a Novel” and “The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life” — has been named editor-in-chief of Jet magazine, Johnson Publishing Co. announced. Miller takes…
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Black in Latin America: Peru, Mexico, Haiti and Santo Domingo
More blacks were transported as slaves to Mexico and Peru than to the United States. Afro-Peruvians have staged a cultural revival, but Afro-Mexicans are much more reticent about their origins. Haitians are proudly black, but brown-skinned Dominicans prefer the term “Indio.” These are just a few of the findings in Black in Latin America, the new…