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Trump Called Out on Lack of Diversity
“In his first two weeks, President Trump has sought to project the image of a new leader moving quickly to enact his agenda,” David Nakamura and Abby Phillip reported Sunday for the Washington Post. “He has surrounded himself in photo ops with his most trusted senior aides as he signs a flurry of executive orders,…
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The Woke Guide to the Super Bowl: If You’re Rooting for the New England Patriots, You’re Rooting for Trump
The two weeks between the NFL playoffs and the Super Bowl are usually incredibly boring. The same interviews, the same analysis for a game that Vegas picked correctly a month ago. But thanks to Donald Trump, this year it’s different. After decades of adhering to the “stick to sports” mantra, sports fans, pundits and especially…
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Tracing Your Roots: Was My Ancestor Kidnapped From Freedom to Slavery?
A book claims that a man’s great-grandfather was abducted as a boy and sold into bondage. Official records back up at least part of the heartbreaking story. Dear Professor Gates: I am trying to find the names of the parents of my great-grandfather Lucius Kidd. All I have to go on is a book written…
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Miffed, Tamron Hall Leaves Today, NBC
Tamron Hall, the first black woman to co-host “Today,” is leaving NBC and MSNBC despite a multimillion-dollar offer to stay and a pledge for an expanded role on other shows, official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. The network sought to replace Hall and co-host Al Roker, also a black journalist, on the “Today” show’s third…
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Prison Siege: Del. Inmates Take Staff Members and Fellow Prisoners Hostage
A hostage situation is underway at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del., after an unknown number of inmates took control of a building Wednesday morning, injured one corrections officer and took four others, as well as fellow prisoners, captive. The News Journal reports that as of Wednesday night, there was little progress…
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Today Hour 3: Kelly in; Roker, Hall Out
NBC intends to launch a new daytime show featuring former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, displacing black journalists Tamron Hall and Al Roker from the third hour of the “Today” show, according to reports Friday .Hall’s contract expires in February. That the contract of fellow black journalist Joy Reid, host of the weekend “AM Joy”…
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Tracing Your Roots: Were My Married Slave Ancestors Forced to Live Apart?
A historical document that appears to legalize a marriage formed under bondage in 1858 suggests a heartbreaking scenario for one woman’s ancestors. Professor Gates and his team of genealogy researchers address the answers she seeks. Dear Professor Gates: I am trying to learn more about my enslaved ancestors Sandy Butner and Mary Jane Powe in…
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Trump Team’s Lies Ignite Firestorm
After a weekend of unprecedented criticism of the newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump and his new press secretary Sean Spicer for their equally unprecedented string of falsehoods and hectoring of the news media, Spicer told reporters on Monday that the White House’s intention is never to lie. It was a conversation in which the…