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The Lie Everyone Tells You About Having a Pregnant Wife
“If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.” —Slim Charles One of the best things about The Wire is that, even almost a decade after the last episode aired, you can still incorporate lines from the show to describe everyday situations. Order cream of chicken with wild rice at Panera Bread, and it comes…
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Will Howard University’s TV Station Be Auctioned Off to the FCC?
Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick is considering auctioning WHUT—the university’s public television station, and for 35 years the only black-owned public television station in the United States—to the Federal Communications Commission for anywhere between an estimated $100 million and $500 million, according to a universitywide memorandum released Friday. The channel’s broadcast spectrum, containing both…
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Meet Cush Jumbo, the Brit Star Who Plays The Good Wife’s New BFF
The black-British acting invasion hasn’t slowed, and Cush Jumbo, who popped up in the season premiere of The Good Wife on CBS, is the latest import. In her native England, Jumbo distinguished herself on the theatrical stage, winning awards and nominations for performances in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the all-female version of Julius…
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Mainstream News Outlets Give 2015 Million Man March Minimal Coverage; Social Media Reacts
20-Year Anniversary of Million Man Event Minimized The first viewer comment on C-SPAN’s call-in “Washington Journal” on Sunday was from Everett of Jersey City, N.J. The topic for the segment was Saturday’s Justice or Else march in Washington, the 20-year sequel to the 1995 Million Man March. “None of the mainstream media were there. That’s…
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Philadelphia Magazine Admits It Has a Diversity Problem and Is Doing Something About It
Latest Flap Follows Cover That Omitted Blacks Philadelphia Magazine reacted Wednesday to a call by black journalists for its editor to resign over the magazine’s lack of diversity by announcing “a series of immediate and long-term diversity initiatives.” The magazine’s lack of inclusion is reflective of city magazines in general. Jack Limpert, then retired editor…
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US Border Patrol Agent Charged With Murder for Firing Across Border Into Mexico and Killing Teen
Action Aided by Pressure From Arizona Republic Probe “It was an indictment that many never imagined would be brought down: a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder for firing across the border into Mexico and killing a teenager,” Rob O’Dell reported Monday for the Arizona Republic. Investigations by the Republic, the story said,…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Awarded ‘Genius’ Grant; It’s a Rare Honor for a Journalist of Color
Foundation Gives 24 Recipients $625,000 Over Five Years Ta-Nehisi Coates, the national correspondent of The Atlantic whose explorations of race have also made him a bestselling author, is among 24 Americans named Tuesday as winners of a MacArthur Fellowship, known as “the genius grant.” “Every year, the MacArthur Foundation selects a crop of extraordinary Americans…
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Black TV Reporter in Va. Is Granted Order of Protection Against White Man
Roanoke TV Reporter Was Threatened After WDBJ Killings A black television reporter in Roanoke, Va., who was threatened in the wake of the on-air killings of two WDBJ-TV reporters was granted a protective order Wednesday against the man who made the threats, Cameron Austin reported for the Roanoke Times. The order is to remain in…
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Black Reporters Were Threatened After 2 White TV Journalists Were Shot on the Air in Va.
Roanoke Television Station Secured Restraining Order Black journalists in Roanoke, Va., were threatened after the Aug. 26 shooting in which black former journalist Vester Lee Flanagan shot and killed a reporter and a photographer doing a live shot, and then killed himself, the news director at Roanoke’s WDBJ-TV said Saturday. One African American reporter from…