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Writer Says Most Blacks on Show Have Not Been Happy “In the early part of the past decade, I wrote biographies of two famously deceased actors from Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Chris Farley,” Tanner Colby wrote this month for Slate. “Having exhausted the dead, fat comedian genre, I decided to write a somewhat…

Police Sought “Hispanic” but Arrested a “Black Male” Police arrested a Queens, N.Y., man Tuesday in the beating of Randy Gener, an openly gay arts journalist who remained in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery as a result of the attack, New York news media reported. The suspect, Leighton Jennings, was described by police Wednesday…

Joy-Ann Reid to Host Own Show on MSNBC The Grio to Stay, Despite Fate of NBC Latino Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of the Grio and an MSNBC contributor since 2011, will host her own show on MSNBC, the network announced on Monday. David Wilson, co-founder of the Grio, told Journal-isms that he is returning to…

City Lends Black Community Paper $100,000 The City Council of Winston-Salem, N.C., approved a $100,000 low-interest loan this week to the Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the city’s black community. A rival outlet questioned how the weekly could maintain that its reporting on the city was unbiased, and the publisher of the city’s daily declared,…

Player’s Comments Prompt Debate Over ‘T-Word’ “Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman held a press conference Wednesday in which he addressed the backlash to his fiery post-game rant this week and the fact that so many people called him a thug,” Josh Feldman wrote Wednesday for Mediaite. “In fact the word was dropped quite a lot…

Black Media Outlets Petition for Share of Anti-Tobacco Ads The National Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters on Friday asked the U.S. District Court in Washington to order tobacco companies to include black-owned newspapers and broadcast properties as venues for their anti-smoking ads, Target Market News reported on Monday. “A ruling…

Board Decides Against Trip Because of Ethical Issues The board of directors of the National Association of Black Journalists decided Friday to turn down $25,000 in free travel from the state airline of Morocco after the trade association of black-newspaper publishers was criticized for accepting an expense-paid visit to the North African country last week.…

Members of the black press who took an expenses-paid trip to Morocco last week were pawns in a politically motivated move by the Moroccan government in its dispute with the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara, a representative of the occupied region asserted to Journal-isms on Wednesday. The occupied residents, known as Saharawis, have called themselves “the last…

A 14-person delegation from the National Newspaper Publishers Association, representing the nation’s black press, returned Sunday from a week-long government-sponsored trip to Morocco as the North African country reaches out to African Americans. “This is part of series of no-strings attached government-sponsored trips by African American organizations to Morocco to give them a first-hand look…

Tamron Hall Shares Pain of Sister’s Slaying Critic Gets Comeuppance at Television Writers Conference NBC News correspondent Tamron Hall revealed for television critics details of the unsolved 2004 murder of her sister and credited the agony of the experience for “the drive she has to host ‘Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall’ on the network, which…