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Media Blasts Ted Cruz’s Suggestion to Monitor Muslim Neighborhoods Following the Brussels Attacks
“Media, experts, and civil rights groups are all criticizing Ted Cruz’s call to ‘patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods’ in the wake of terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, seemingly inspired by ISIS,” Nick Fernandez wrote Wednesday for Media Matters for America. “The plan has been called ‘counterproductive and unconstitutional’ and ‘the exact opposite of what we…
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Unsung Hollywood: Before Empire, Fox Had New York Undercover, the Original Hip-Hop Drama
Before Empire, there was New York Undercover. While one teeters into more soap opera terrain and the other was a solid cop drama, they are importantly linked through the culture of hip-hop, and Fox, the network behind both. As Empire resumes its second season next week, TV One’s Unsung Hollywood: New York Undercover couldn’t come…
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10 Female Artists of Color on the Rise
When we think about history, we find that there are defining moments we can embrace in every era. Art happens to be one endeavor that consistently informs us about the history and culture of past societies. Whether it is a performance, literary or visual, art is significant. For this very reason, it is the mission…
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Seeking the Origins of a Pioneering Desegregationist
The paternal second great-grandfather of my wife, Donna Paulette Wysinger Wilson, is Edmond Edward Wysinger. He was a historical figure in California, having brought a lawsuit (Wysinger v. Crookshank) in 1890 to desegregate California schools so that his son Arthur could attend the local high school. We traced Edmond back to South Carolina, where he…
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News Outlets Agree That Obama’s Pick for Supreme Court Justice Should Be Considered Accordingly
President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, announced Wednesday, appears to meet with the overwhelming approval of the nation’s editorial pages, according to an informal survey. The opinion writers are validating Obama’s statement that the majority of the public is opposed to the declaration by Senate Republicans that they will refuse…
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13 Times Trump or His Supporters Got Ugly at His Events
He pledged to pay legal fees for a supporter who injured a protester. He threatened to curb free press by opening defamation laws. He said that he wants to surveil mosques. He mocked a reporter with a disability. He is being investigated for whether he incited a riot, has made violent comments about protesters, and said…
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HBCU Students at SXSW Dispel Myths That Blacks Aren’t Interested in Tech
HBCUs have come under fire in recent years as questions abound as to whether these academic institutions are doing enough to equip black students for careers in high-growth industries and fields related to science, technology, engineering and math. Despite research showing that HBCUs produce the majority of black science and engineering graduates who pursue advanced…
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If Media Were More Diverse, They Would Call Out Trump’s Racism and Xenophobia More Readily
They used different words, but when asked about coverage of the increasingly volatile presidential campaign, the presidents of the national associations of black and Hispanic journalists agreed: Not enough journalists of color have been in decision-making positions. “With 30 percent of the population being African American or Hispanic and our current president being black, the…
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2 Black Reporters Describe Their Experiences at Major Conservative Conference
It was Thursday, March 3, the second day of the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., and Julia Craven, politics reporter at the Huffington Post, and Tyler Tynes, a politics fellow there, were gathering material for what would become a piece the Huffington Post headlined, “What Happened When 2 Black Reporters Attended The…
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Media Call Out Republican Maya Angelou Haters in Congress
“Maya Angelou died two years ago but still she lives, a mighty spirit against the small minds of negativity,” began an editorial in the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal on Sunday. “She lives through her written words, including her signature poem that smacks back hard against some Washington small minds who tried to belittle her last week.…