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Whites Believed Ready for Local Initiatives on Race Polling data say that recent developments such as video showing police culpability in brutality against citizens have persuaded white Americans that racism is a national problem that must be confronted, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation declared Thursday. That means the United States is ready for the concept of…

Response to Oregon Standoff Has Invited Comparisons “A siege of more than three weeks at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge came to a sudden and violent end Tuesday when five militants — including leader Ammon Bundy and his brother, Ryan Bundy — were arrested in a traffic stop and another militia member was shot and…

Some Blur Faces; Media “Cautious With a Hurtful Image” A photo of six white Arizona high school girls who arranged their shirts to spell “Ni**er” (with actual asterisks) when they stood together went viral over the weekend after they posted it on social media. The photo, taken Friday after the girls posed for their senior…

The most popular African American website for 2015 wasn’t known for its discussions of Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump or killer snowstorms, according to a compilation from the ComScore, Inc., research company. That distinction goes to Madame Noire, which calls itself “a sophisticated lifestyle publication that gives African-American women the latest in fashion trends, black…

Despite Numbers, Voting Influence Seen as Limited Latinos, now the nation’s largest minority group, will make up a record 11.9 percent of all U.S. eligible voters in 2016, pulling nearly even with blacks at 12.4 percent, the Pew Research Center reported on Tuesday. But “for many reasons, Latino voters are likely to once again be…

Morning News Cuts 13 “neighborsgo” Jobs The Dallas Morning News yesterday shut down its neighborsgo section covering community news and its FD magazine covering the Dallas area’s luxury market, cutting 13 neighborsgo jobs and six FD positions. “There is no pretending that this isn’t a loss to us and to our readers,” Publisher and CEO…

Many Wish “State of the Union” Addressed Race Issues President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night might have been a vision for the future, an exit interview with the American people or a chance to respond to critics of his presidency, but in some quarters the relevant questions were how much the president…

“Insult to Journalists” to Give Drug Lord Approval “Almost as soon as Rolling Stone’s first scoop of the year, an interview with the Sinaloa Cartel’s bloody kingpin known as ‘El Chapo,’ was published late Saturday night, the critiques began rolling in,” Caitlin Cruz reported Monday for Talking Points Memo. “Chief among them was an ethical…

Melvin Claxton remembers working on an investigation at the Detroit News that landed a finalist spot in the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2003. The News looked at “how the failures of Wayne County law enforcement agencies allowed more than 26,000 fugitives to roam the streets of Detroit with little fear of apprehension. It…

“The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California,” Michael R. Sisak reported Wednesday for the Associated Press. Among other media reactions to the…