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Tim Kaine and Mike Pence to Face Off in Vice Presidential Debate
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) will meet face-to-face at Longwood University in Virginia for the one and only vice presidential debate Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. EDT. The debate will be broadcast commercial free on all major television networks and cable channels as well as C-SPAN. Elaine Quijano of CBS News…
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Is Black America Having a Crisis of Confidence With Police, Media?
Is this what happens when fear of police violence combines with mistrust of the news media? “Imagine thinking that out of the 197 black people who’ve been killed by police this year, one of them could have been you,” Taryn Finley wrote Friday for Huffington Post BlackVoices. “This thought process, unfortunately, is all too familiar…
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Race Questions Helped to Undermine Trump in 1st Debate
Lester Holt answered any doubt about how prominent a role race would play in the first presidential debate of the 2016 homestretch. More than 80 million people watched, setting a record in the 60-year history of televised presidential debates, Brian Stelter reported Tuesday for CNN Money. Holt lobbed a series of questions that helped most…
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Open Letter to My Congressman, Robert Pittenger: No, We Don’t Hate White People
Dear Rep. Robert Pittenger: You may be the elected U.S. congressman from the district of North Carolina that runs through my neighborhood, but you don’t represent me. When you were asked for your reaction to the citizens who took to the streets of Charlotte to protest the killings of people of color by law enforcement and…
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Will Lester Holt’s Race Influence His Presidential-Debate Questions?
“Lester Holt is carrying the weight of the nation,” Dylan Byers reported Friday for CNN Money. “On Monday, the NBC Nightly News anchor will preside over what may be the most highly anticipated presidential debate in American history. . . .” Callum Borchers of the Washington Post noted that “Holt . . . is the…
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture Opens, Housing ‘Sacred’ Objects
It’s no easy task to encompass the history of a race of people with varying cultures, languages and religions who were forced to create a new culture and community in a foreign land under the brutality of slavery. But the National Museum of African American History and Culture has taken on the task and dug…
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Charlotte Observer Says Release the Keith Lamont Scott Video
“Did Keith Lamont Scott have a gun in his hand when officers confronted him in a University City apartment complex parking lot Tuesday afternoon?” the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer editorialized Wednesday. “Or was it a book? “Police say the former. Relatives and protesters say the latter. “What we know is that, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg police resist disclosure…
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Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Wells Fargo CEO During Senate Banking Committee Hearing
“Mr. Stumpf, the Wells Fargo Vision and Values statement [pdf], which you frequently cite, says, quote, ‘We believe in values lived, not phrases memorized. If you want to find out how strong a company’s ethics are, don’t listen to what its people say; watch what they do.’ So, let’s do that.” So began Democratic Sen.…
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If You're Young, Fabulous and Female and in the Philly Area, You Don't Want to Miss This!
Are you young, fabulous, female and in the Philadelphia area? Then come on out to join The Root at our event on Wednesday, Sept. 28. YFF: Philadelphia will be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be a fabulous girls’ night out of networking, intriguing panel discussion…
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ASNE, in Reversal, Releases Newsroom-by-Newsroom Diversity Figures
The American Society of News Editors reversed itself Tuesday and released diversity figures on individual U.S. newsrooms, concluding that “the need for transparency outweighed a good-faith effort to improve response rates on the annual survey,” new ASNE President Mizell Stewart III, vice president for news operations at Gannett and the USA Today Network, said in…