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It isn’t unusual for journalists to try other jobs, sometimes out of necessity, but the days of a George Plimpton — who a couple of decades ago told us about his adventures in professional sports, as a stand-up comedian, a movie bad guy and a circus performer — seem to be gone. Plimpton, who died…

It isn’t unusual for journalists to try other jobs, sometimes out of necessity, but the days of a George Plimpton — who a couple of decades ago told us about his adventures in professional sports, as a stand-up comedian, a movie bad guy and a circus performer — seem to be gone. Plimpton, who died…

“Minutes after collapsing on live TV, Dawne Gee woke up in an ambulance paralyzed from the neck down. She was having a stroke,” Jere Downs reported Tuesday for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. “It was 7:43 p.m. Friday night. ‘I could look up and see the ceiling. There were lights everywhere, and they were working…

We saw the scenes of Cuban exiles in Miami dancing in the streets Saturday at the news that Fidel Castro had died at age 90. It was not difficult to find the views of people like Tom Llamas, an ABC News reporter whose parents fled the island as political exiles. He was emotional as he…

“Nearly half of U.S. voters (46%) expect [Donald J.] Trump’s election to lead to worse race relations, while just 25% say they will improve (26% say there will be no difference),” Shiva Maniam reported Monday for Pew Research Center. “By contrast, after [Barack] Obama’s election eight years ago, 52% of voters expected race relations to…

No doubt that a panel of thinkers about race would have said the same thing even if they hadn’t just seen portions of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS documentary “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise.” They concluded nevertheless that the impending presidency of Donald J. Trump demands that black America fight back. And…

When the service set aside for community tributes to Gwen Ifill ended Friday night at Washington’s historic Metropolitan AME Church, knots of people found each other as they remained in the sanctuary. The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was with the New York Times’ Yamiche Alcindor and Sherrilyn Ifill, Gwen’s cousin and president and director-counsel of…

On Nov. 10, Joe Scarborough claimed that New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet declared in August that “the New York Times’ job and journalists’ job now was to defeat Donald Trump.” Scarborough acknowledged Tuesday to the Times’ Jim Rutenberg, pictured, that he misspoke. After excoriating reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign as “cheerleaders”…

Eartha Kitt, the politically active actress and chanteuse whose “Santa Baby” still lights up holiday playlists, was on her deathbed in 2008 when The HistoryMakers, an organization honoring black achievement, decided to honor Kitt with a tribute to be televised on PBS. The entertainer had only one condition, and it was the same one as…

Race was not high on the list of concerns listed in analyses of Donald J. Trump’s victory Tuesday, but the self-described only black reporter who covered Trump in the field wrote Wednesday that, to her, the subject was omnipresent. “In this, my experience was not unique. Nearly all those who covered Trump have been booed,…