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Green Party VP Hopeful: Obama’s a ‘Tom’
Ajamu Baraka, the African American vice presidential candidate of the Green Party, has declared President Obama an “Uncle Tom,” and the party’s presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein told the Washington Post editorial board that she would not ask him to apologize. Her explanation of why she will not makes her view of African Americans no…
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Al Sharpton Urges Revival of Emerge Magazine
By Marlon A. Walker The Rev. Al Sharpton urged mourners paying tribute to George E. Curry Saturday to keep alive Curry’s dream of reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine and said he would write a check to help. “If ever we need a strong, independent, ethical black press, we need it now,” Sharpton said. The…
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Media Turn on the Olympics’ ‘Ugly American’
“Swimmer Ryan Lochte was dubbed ‘The Ugly American’ on Friday as U.S. media turned on the once beloved Olympic champion, saying his made-up tale of being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro played into the worst stereotypes of Americans abroad,” Jill Serjeant reported Friday for Reuters. But not all in the news media were…
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Donald Trump Picks White Nationalists’ Dream
“Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management — and his white nationalist fanboys love it,” Betsy Woodruff and Gideon Resnick wrote Wednesday for the Daily Beast. “The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News — where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers. “White…
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A Hip-Hop Hall of Fame for the ‘Other Guy’
If you’re a fan of hip-hop, you know what I’m talking about. In most rap groups, there’s a standout emcee who is the face of the franchise, the leader of the team and the straw that stirs the drink. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about the other guy in the group. You…
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Aspiring Journalist Joins Chicago’s Gun Fatalities
The 19-year-old son of a Chicago police officer returning home for a visit from St. John’s University in New York where he was majoring in journalism was shot and killed Sunday morning, Chicago and New York news organizations reported. “The shooting took place in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side just after midnight, according…
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Bill Clinton to Asian Americans: Bigger ‘Us,’ Smaller ‘Them’
Bill Clinton, acting as a surrogate for his wife’s presidential campaign, told Asian American journalists and voter activists Friday, “You want a president like Hillary Clinton who sees you as part and parcel of the quilt of diversity . . . We should be expanding the definition of ‘us’ and shrinking the definition of ‘them,’…
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Why Not Cover Race?
In a half-hour podcast [audio] recorded Wednesday by the Futuro Media Group, led by public broadcasting’s Maria Hinojosa, four journalists of color gave fresh takes on the longstanding question of whether they feel “pigeonholed” by covering race. Their short answer was they’re covering today’s big story. They also discussed stories on race that the media…