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How Musicians and Artists Can Be Relevant to the Social-Justice Movement
At the first-ever Blackout Music & Film Festival, held Saturday at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles, artists, activists, celebrities and everyday citizens convened to highlight and explore the ways in which artists are using their art to address human rights violations and injustices. The daylong festival featured screenings of 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten…
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On-Air Shooting in Va. Puts Focus on Race and Mental Health
The tragic killing of two Virginia television reporters Monday prompted commentaries reaffirming the need for gun control, bemoaning the frightening “dark side” of social media and noting the vulnerability of television news crews. But it was attention to the mental health of black journalists that prompted Jeffrey Ballou, a news editor at Al Jazeera English,…
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Black and Hispanic Career Changers: Nas Is Dishing Out Scholarship Money so You Can Learn How to Code in 3 Months
It’s quickly becoming the No. 1 choice for 20-something and 30-something career changers who are fed up with their current gigs and want to learn a valuable skill quickly. Coding—also called programming or software engineering—is the go-to field for these types of transitions. Coders learn how to build websites, apps and the digital products and…
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Columnist: Covering Black Lives Matter Is Taking a Unique Toll on Black Reporters
More Newsroom Diversity Would Ease the Burden “As calls for newsroom diversity get louder and louder — and rightly so — we might do well to consider what it means that there’s an emerging, highly valued professional class of black reporters at boldface publications reporting on the shortchanging of black life in this country,” Gene…
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Racism in the Air You Breathe: When Where You Live Determines How Fast You Die
Countless African-American neighborhoods are plagued by some of the worst ongoing environmental disasters that exist on the planet. There’s often a landfill, highway, airport or oil refinery next door. Nearby you can find contaminated bus depots, nasty subway stops, plus the lead in old houses, which can lead to neurological disorders and learning difficulties (pdf).…
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Julian Bond’s ‘Comic’ Stance on the Vietnam War
Say the name aloud of our new ancestor, Julian Bond, and generations of black Americans will think of a clear, proud voice. For some, they hear the sophisticated trumpet for justice as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the rabble-rousing, hell-raising civil rights organization that pushed Martin Luther King Jr. into militancy and,…
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Media Outlets Look Back on the Year Since Police Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Media Begin Commemorations of Portentous Shooting As the news media began to commemorate the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., that reverberated around the nation, St. Louis County police “agreed as part of two federal court settlements not to seek charges against a pair of journalists who were arrested for allegedly…
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How Knowledge Just Fucked Up Coke For Me.
Fuck knowledge, b. Do you remember the movie Renaissance Man? It’s the movie where Danny DeVito ends up teaching the slow kids at bootcamp in Michigan in hopes of making them not do the slow. Day very boring. Well one day while making them read…something…one of them asks what he’s reading and it turns out…
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#BlackMenLove: We Should Cheer Academic Success the Same Way We Do Sports and Entertainment
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles that were shared in partnership with BMe Community’s #BlackMenLove to remind readers of who, what and how deeply black men love during this final weekend of Black Family Month. BMe is a growing network of all races and genders committed to building better communities…
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Report: Percentage of Journalists of Color in Digital and Print Newsrooms Declines Slightly
From ASNE: “Our Industry Isn’t Making Progress” The percentage of journalists of color in newspaper and online newsrooms declined from 13.34 percent to 12.76 percent, the American Society of News Editors reported Tuesday, with the percentages down among Asian Americans, blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, but a slight increase among those identifying as multiracial [PDF]. “The…