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    Obama Was More Aware of Racism Than We Saw

    Aide: Like Jackie Robinson, Felt He Had to Take It Obama Is Busy Organizing and Writing A High for Diversity in Local TV Newsrooms Rethinking Urged on Funding for News Diversity J-Groups Seek Access to Migrant Detention Centers ‘What’s the El Salvadoran Congress Going to Do?’ NAHJ Investigating Misconduct Allegations Magazine Targets Blacks, Latinos Who…

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    NABJ’s Executive Director Resigns

    3 Months After That Letter, the Other Shoe Drops Netflix Spokesman Out After Using ‘N Word’ Forced Family Breakups Are Part of America, People of Color Say How That Devastating Audio Clip Came to Be Obama Separated Families, but Difference Is Scale NAHJ President Says Role Is to Support Journalists In 26 States, Whites’ Deaths…

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    Investigative Chicago Reader to Become Black-Owned

    Head of Black-Press Group Heads Ownership Team A Boon for Diversity Among Film Critics Festivals Allot Press Passes for ‘Underrepresented’ Only Half of Republicans View Diversity as a Positive Trump Aide Urges Suspending Acosta’s Credentials Press Looks Inside U.S. ‘Shelter’ for Immigrant Boys Back-Up Data Essential in Pitching Racial Stories Sinclair Selling Williams 3 Stations…

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    On Day of Chicago Vlogger’s Funeral, Friend Is Slain [Corrected]

    Coverage Falls to Postings on Social Media Immigrants Held a Special Place With Bourdain Washington Post Breaks Story of Migrant’s Suicide Cortes Fights On Despite Losing Lawsuit What to Know About the Repeal of Net Neutrality Google’s Parent Elevates Attention to Diversity Press and Public Don’t Fully Understand Each Other Oren Dorell, USA Today Reporter,…

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    ‘Is the President Aware That Taking the Knee Is About Police-Involved Shootings?’

    April Ryan, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Clash Again Inquirer Rebukes Trump for Disinviting Eagles Pittsburgh Paper Spikes 6 of Staffer’s Cartoons Where Murder Is Common but Arrests Are Rare Does Video Reflect Cops’ True Character? On Puerto Rico: ‘Their Story Deserves to Be Told’ How Bobby Kennedy Got an Education on Race Earl Morgan, Jersey Journal…

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    Streetwise Video Blogger Slain in Chicago

    Zachary Stoner Called Himself the ‘Hood CNN’ Chicago Tribune Finds Predators on School Staffs Craig Melvin Puts Bill Clinton on Defense 90% of Editors of Large Papers Are White, 73% Male Memphis Reporter Escapes Deportation, for Now Journalist Not Guilty After Pipeline Arrest ‘All Things Considered’ Airs From Puerto Rico Walter Stovall, Editor, Trainer of…

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    New Art-School Grad Has Already Landed New Yorker Cover

    Loveis Wise Is in Rare Company Seeing No Diversity, Philly Papers Drop Ad Agency Harold Jackson Leaving Philadelphia for Houston Report on Massive Puerto Rico Toll Overshadowed Outrage Builds on Separation of Families Spanish Again the Most Polarizing Language in U.S. ‘We . . . Got the George Takei Assault Wrong’ ‘Asian American’ at 50:…

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    Roseanne Train Wreck Raises Issues of Race in TV Coverage

    In the fallout over ABC’s cancellation of “Rosanne” over star Rosanne Barr’s racist tweet, much of the commentary congratulatory, some critics raised a challenging question: How can the media cater to red-state voters without mainstreaming the racism that too many of them embrace? “What is America going to do about the normalization of racism?” (video)…

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    NFL No-Knee Rule Blasted as Slap at Blacks

    Opinion Writers Ask Whether Protest Isn’t Patriotic Debra Lee Departs BET After Three Decades Detained Mexican Journalist Wins New Hearing Reporter’s Experience With Freeman Led to Exposé What It’s Like to Win a Lawsuit Against Trump Why We Still Need a Month for Asian Americans Shaun King Says He Was Duped by Woman’s Story Short…

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    Fox & Friends Pans NABJ’s ‘Journalist of the Year’

    Black Conservative Gets Facts Wrong on Jemele Hill A Penalty for Nondisclosure of Diversity Info? Patricia Thompson to Direct Accrediting Group Obamas to Produce Shows, Films for Netflix 9-Year St. Louis Reporter Agrees to Drug Program Ticketing Disparities Linked to Class as Well as Race Wedding Drew Big Audience, but It’s All Relative He Wisely…