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NABJ Elects Bob Butler President
Bob Butler, a multimedia reporter at KCBS radio in San Francisco and two-term vice president/broadcast of the National Association of Black Journalists, was elected president of the organization Friday as members learned that NABJ ran a deficit in 2012 and that its finance committee projected one for 2013 as well. Butler, 60, defeated Sarah J.…
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The GOP's Budget Sparring Match With Obama
Republican leaders are once again resorting to fear-mongering and empty rhetoric in an effort to block Barack Obama’s budget proposals, Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes at his blog. He examines the GOP’s relentless budget sparring matches with the president. GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is nothing if not persistent. And it’s always the same issue…
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The Death Penalty: How Long Will It Survive?
(The Root) — On May 7, officials at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as “ol’ Parchman,” planned to strap Willie Jerome Manning to a gurney and pump a lethal cocktail of drugs into his veins at precisely 7 p.m. But just five hours before he was set to die, the state’s Supreme Court halted…
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Black STEM Networking Events Near You
(The Root) — Are you black and interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics? Then Blerds Night Out is for you. The seven-city tour, hosted by Blerdology, is making stops in major U.S. cities, hosting networking events that will focus on what black-owned STEM companies are doing in those communities. Blerdology’s founder, Kat Calvin, describes…
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White Juries and Black Victims
(The Root) — Gavel-to-gavel news coverage with a promise that viewers “won’t miss a moment.” A televised re-enactment of deadly events. A virtual army of lawyers, writers and jury consultants, analyzing every comment, every witness and nearly every moment of the George Zimmerman trial. The courtroom scene in Sanford, Fla., where Zimmerman faces second-degree-murder and…
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DOMA and Voting Rights Don't Compare
(The Root) — Who is the most privileged among the least privileged? That’s the question many are asking as Americans discuss how the Supreme Court treated race-centered cases over the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action versus cases over same-sex marriage. Are African Americans and other people of color, who are the most likely to face…
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Portraying Difference in 18th-Century Brazil
(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Depicted approximately life-size, a nearly naked young black man stands before a curving dirt…
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Gay Journos Visible 'All Over the Airwaves'
“The remarkable shift in how the United States views gay rights and gay people could be easily understood just by following the way the media covered the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 on Wednesday,” Jack Mirkinson reported Thursday for Huffington Post. “Just as LGBT people have become ever more visible…
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Obama in Africa: Money Well Spent
“At the end of this month, President Obama will begin his trip to Africa, visiting South Africa, Senegal (in West Africa) and Tanzania (in East Africa),” Jonathan Berman wrote Monday for Harvard Business Review. “The trip will be expensive, and The Washington Post has highlighted the large cost at a time of budget tightening. However, even the myopia…
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The Varied Perceptions of Rachel Jeantel
There is no middle-of-the-road opinion about 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel, writes Jason Johnson at HLN, arguing that demographics play a large role in how critics and supporters have perceived her testimony and courtroom demeanor. Jeantel, the last person to speak to Trayvon, testified as a witness for the prosecution in George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial. If you…