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New York Times Won't Attend NABJ in 2012
Company Endorses Candidate but Won’t Support Conference The New York Times Co. is not attending the National Association of Black Journalists convention next year. “We are supporting Unity,” Desiree Dancy, vice president, diversity and inclusion, told Journal-isms on Friday. “We’re disappointed in the fact that NABJ pulled out of Unity and yet this is a…
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How Black Is Bliss Broyard?
In an episode of African American Lives 2 that aired on PBS in 2008, writer Bliss Broyard, who spent her life thinking her father, New York Times critic Anatole Broyard, was white, finds out from The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. how much African ancestry she really has. Learn how to trace your ancestry…
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Writer Hints at Comcast Payoff to Sharpton
Activist Was Early Backer of Acquisition of NBC “Eight months after Al Sharpton signed a pivotal agreement that helped Comcast and NBC secure Federal Communications Commission approval for their $30 billion merger, MSNBC appears poised to reward him with a prime-time news show,” Wayne Barrett, who long covered Sharpton for the Village Voice, wrote Wednesday…
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Alt Weeklies: Dancing Around Diversity?
Alternative Press Concedes Its Readers Are “So White” If the sight of the Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers gospel choir performing in a bar did not signal that this was not your ordinary journalism convention, then maybe the burlesque dancers, not to be called strippers, the magic act and the swinging New Orleans brass…
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New Yorkers Weigh In on Restaurant Tipping
Inspired by The Root’s recent survey on tipping habits at restaurants, we hit the streets of New York City to ask regular folks how and why they tip. Here’s what they had to say. Check out our survey results, and read a firsthand account about tipping from the viewpoint of a former waiter at Check,…
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Black Journalists vs. Sharpton?
Freelance journalist Jeff Winbush wants it known that he is not hatin’ on the Rev. Al Sharpton. Winbush is a blogger in Columbus, Ohio, a former editor of the black newspaper the Columbus Post and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. More to the point, he was the source of a quote…
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MSNBC Ready to Hire Sharpton
Activist Would Host at 6 p.m. on Cable Network “After giving a nearly six-month tryout for the Internet talk show host Cenk Uygur, the cable news channel MSNBC is preparing to instead hand its 6 p.m. time slot to the Rev. Al Sharpton,” Brian Stelter reported Thursday for the New York Times. Such a move…
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Great-Grandma's Pain
In an episode of African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, the Olympic gold medalist talked about the hurt and pain the older women in her family carried with them. Plus: Learn how to trace your ancestry in our Roots section.
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Second NABJ Candidate Touts Boss' Backing
Charles Robinson III Monday became the second candidate in the race for president of the National Association of Black Journalists to tout an endorsement from his employer, but DeWayne Wickham, a founder and past president of the association, said such endorsements are “a cancer on our organization that eats away at a core value.” Gregory…
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New York Times CEO Endorses NABJ Presidential Candidate
In a highly unusual move, New York Times Co. CEO Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. has made an endorsement in the presidential contest of the National Association of Black Journalists. Sulzberger endorsed Gregory Lee Jr., senior assistant sports editor at the Boston Globe, a New York Times Co. property. Lee touted the endorsement Friday on his…