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The Era of the Black Woman
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 56:…
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Why Blacks Loved John F. Kennedy
<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…
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Left of Black Web Series Now Appearing at The Root TV
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs isn’t the only one launching a video revolution this year. We recently launched our premiere digital-video hub, The Root TV, which features a juicy concoction of relevant news clips, provocative Web series and compelling interview segments that we produce in-house. All of the original and curated video content pushes the envelope…
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White Dad Wonders How to Raise His Biracial Kids
“My wife and I have been married one month (to the day) and been together for about four years before that, so naturally the subject of kids has come up. She is mostly black, and one-quarter Cherokee, while I’m as white as Wonderbread, with mostly Scottish and German ancestry. We’re excited to introduce our future…
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US Media Use American to Show Philippines Typhoon Tragedy
One of the most powerful storms to have ever made landfall dominated news coverage over Veterans Day, with news outlets chasing as many angles as they could in the Philippines tragedy, including first-person accounts, where to send aid, the connection to climate change and, no doubt, finding an American face to place on the story.…
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Miami Herald Reporter Freed in Venezuela
U.S. of “Enormous Assistance” Despite Frosty Relations Venezuela released Miami Herald reporter Jim Wyss after nearly 48 hours in custody, the Miami Herald reported. World Editor John Yearwood, who went to Venezuela to help secure Wyss’ release, messaged Journal-isms from Caracas, “There’s no question that the release would not have happened this quickly without the…
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The Future of Race in America
Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a three-part series. To read part 1, click here. (The Root)—When it comes to race in America, there’s no question that things are changing. Here’s what we know for sure: The country is becoming more diverse. Half of kids under age 5 are members of racial and ethnic…
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Few Journalists of Color Covered Shutdown
Does a Picture From Capitol Hill Tell the Story? A photo in the Washington Post on Thursday showing reporters outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday night seemed to confirm what some suspected about the coverage of the partial federal government shutdown that ended Thursday: Journalists of color were scarce when it came…
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Why Police Want to Share Profiling Data
(The Root) — “Six or seven years ago, I was sitting around writing a piece for public consumption. I thought, ‘What I could use here are some stats on racial profiling and police brutality.’ There were none — there are none. We just don’t have the numbers, and that’s because there’s no mandatory reporting.” That’s…
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Black Women in Media: Gold Diggers, Jezebels and Baby Mamas?
In the media, “negative imagery of Black women is seen often twice as frequently as positive imagery,” according to a survey of more than 1,200 respondents appearing in the November issue of Essence magazine. They “told us that the images we encounter regularly on TV, in social media, in music videos and from other outlets…