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“It’s really hard to get beyond ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator, said on that cable network after Donald J. Trump delivered his victory speech at 2:43 a.m. on Wednesday. Robinson might have been the first African American to speak on national television after Trump accepted his status…

Hillary Clinton’s use of the term “superpredators” in 1996 to describe some black youths—a term for which she has apologized—has served as justification for some to declare that they cannot support her bid for president. Such an argument apparently hasn’t gained traction with inmates of color in at least one storied prison. For them, Clinton…

“WEWS Channel 5 ‘Good Morning Cleveland’ anchor Jackie Fernandez and meteorologist Somara Theodore are no longer with the station,” Joey Morona reported Tuesday for cleveland.com. Scott Jones reported for his TV news tipsheet FTVLive Monday that the two “were fired after posting that they were standing in line to get free Jay Z tickets” for…

Signs point to TV One, the African American-owned cable television network that partnered with CNN to present a March presidential town hall with the Democratic candidates, as the source of the leak to Democratic strategist Donna Brazile about at least one question to be asked during the town hall, two media reporters told readers on…

In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 15-year-old, was abducted and beaten to death, his body mutilated, after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in Virginia and several other states. Both cases are…

The most recent batch of hacked emails distributed by WikiLeaks included the cell phone number of Fox News commentator Juan Williams, prompting supporters of Donald Trump to call the number at all hours to insult Williams and accuse him of being a Democratic Party stooge, Williams wrote on Monday. The incident follows criticism of WikiLeaks…

Dana Canedy, a champion of newsroom diversity inside the New York Times, is leaving the company to write books and work on a movie based on her memoir, the Times announced Friday, prompting a meeting of about a dozen African American Times journalists concerned about the news organization’s commitment to diversity. Executive Editor Dean Baquet…

The headline coming out of Wednesday’s Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate was Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the Nov. 8 election results, following his claims that the process was “rigged.” In fact, many observers have written, it is Republicans who are “rigging” the election through voter suppression of people of color. The 2016 election…

The National Association of Black Journalists, which projected a 2015 deficit of nearly $380,000, is set to end 2016 with a projected $1 million surplus, the association announced on Sunday. “The unaudited amount represents a half million dollars more than what NABJ reported as the expected 2016 surplus during its national convention in August,” according…

“For 27 years, I’ve been in Donald Trump’s crosshairs,” Yusef Salaam wrote Wednesday for the Washington Post. “I’m a member of the Central Park Five (video), a group of teenagers imprisoned for a brutal sexual assault in Central Park in 1989. When we were arrested, the police deprived us of food, drink or sleep for…