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More Than 1,300 Attend Service for Pioneering Political Journalist Gwen Ifill
When the service set aside for community tributes to Gwen Ifill ended Friday night at Washington’s historic Metropolitan AME Church, knots of people found each other as they remained in the sanctuary. The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was with the New York Times’ Yamiche Alcindor and Sherrilyn Ifill, Gwen’s cousin and president and director-counsel of…
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Lone Black Reporter Covering Trump Campaign Reveals Good, Bad, Ugly
Race was not high on the list of concerns listed in analyses of Donald J. Trump’s victory Tuesday, but the self-described only black reporter who covered Trump in the field wrote Wednesday that, to her, the subject was omnipresent. “In this, my experience was not unique. Nearly all those who covered Trump have been booed,…
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Black Media Sounds Off on Trump’s Victory: ‘This Lets Us Know Exactly Where We Stand’
“It’s really hard to get beyond ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator, said on that cable network after Donald J. Trump delivered his victory speech at 2:43 a.m. on Wednesday. Robinson might have been the first African American to speak on national television after Trump accepted his status…
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Inmates for Clinton, Guards for Trump
Hillary Clinton’s use of the term “superpredators” in 1996 to describe some black youths—a term for which she has apologized—has served as justification for some to declare that they cannot support her bid for president. Such an argument apparently hasn’t gained traction with inmates of color in at least one storied prison. For them, Clinton…
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2 Cleveland Reporters Fired After Seeking Tickets to Jay Z Concert at Hillary Clinton Event
“WEWS Channel 5 ‘Good Morning Cleveland’ anchor Jackie Fernandez and meteorologist Somara Theodore are no longer with the station,” Joey Morona reported Tuesday for cleveland.com. Scott Jones reported for his TV news tipsheet FTVLive Monday that the two “were fired after posting that they were standing in line to get free Jay Z tickets” for…
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The Cast of Set It Off: Where Are They Now?
Set It Off, the bank-heist thriller starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah and Kimberly Elise, debuted 20 years ago on Nov. 6. The film, directed by F. Gary Gray, grossed more than $41 million at the box office and received positive reviews; some critics compared it to Thelma & Louise. Take a…
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New Ad Puts Racial Taboo to Bed
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black 15-year-old, was abducted and beaten to death, his body mutilated, after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in Virginia and several other states. Both cases are…