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How Rachel Dolezal Became a Global News Story
Pacific Northwest Outlets Made Public Record Requests The story that created so much buzz at week’s end started at a 22,000-circulation newspaper in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the ABC-TV affiliate in nearby Spokane, Wash. It was about Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane NAACP who claimed that she was African American but whose parents say…
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Charles Barkley Is Giving Morehouse College $1,000,000
NBA Hall of Famer Aids Journalism and Sports Program “Basketball legend Charles Barkley recently announced his intention to make a $1 million gift to Morehouse College,” the school announced on Friday. “In that same announcement, he pledged similar support to Auburn University (his alma mater) and the Wounded Warrior Project,” for a total of $3…
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. has a house in the same Cincinnati neighborhood where he grew up. But instead of turning the family home into a rental property, he decided to make it a community center for the children in the neighborhood. For the past six months, Moon, who quit his job to try to create his…
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Wow. Here’s What the American Red Cross Did With the Half-Billion Dollars Donated After the Haiti Earthquake
Red Cross Slammed in NPR-ProPublica Investigation “When a devastating earthquake leveled Haiti in 2010, millions of people donated to the American Red Cross. The charity raised almost half a billion dollars. It was one of its most successful fundraising efforts ever,” Laura Sullivan reported for NPR on Wednesday. “The American Red Cross vowed to help…
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Media Outlets Are Taking It Upon Themselves to Track the Number of People Killed by Police
Washington Post Counts 385 Fatally Shot This Year At least 385 people were “shot and killed by police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than two a day, according to a Washington Post analysis,” Kimberly Kindy reported for the Sunday print edition of the Washington Post, along with Julie Tate, Jennifer…
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Chicago Outlet Debated Publishing Photo Showing 2 Cops Treating a Black Suspect Like a Deer
Sun-Times Runs a Photo That Police Didn’t Want Seen “Photographs can do a number of things. “They can help frame a news story or put it into better context. “They can convey details and nuances of a story that might otherwise be lost,” Jim Kirk, publisher and editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote…
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There Are Many Perfectly Valid Reasons To Hate Jay Z. Tidal, However, Isn't One Of Them
1. As a young man, Jay Z spent an indeterminate amount of time dealing crack cocaine in the neighborhood he grew up in. 2. He was so good at dealing crack that he managed to make a small fortune from it and elude any serious legal consequences. 3. He left selling crack behind completely, instead…
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Univision Buys The Root—Fusing the No. 1 Hispanic and the No. 1 Black News Outlets in the US
Broadcaster, Black-Themed Site Each See Chance for Growth TheRoot.com has been sold to Univision Communications Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the parties announced Thursday, in a deal that puts a slice of the African American market in the domain of the U.S. company most dominant in Spanish-language broadcasting. “I’m excited,” Donna Byrd, publisher of TheRoot.com,…
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Wis. Man Exonerated After 10 Years in Prison Graduates From Law School
In 1996 a 17-year-old Jarrett Adams told his parents he was staying at a friend’s house. Adams and two friends ended up at a campus party at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. “I had no business being up there,” Adams told the Chicago Tribune. “It was [a] … recipe for disaster.” The three friends…