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How Employer Credit Checks Are Keeping Black People Unemployed
When New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that his office had cut a deal with the three big credit bureaus—Experian, Equifax and TransUnion—to improve the customer experience, the news shook the financial-services world into a frenzy. “In today’s world, the consumer’s input is less important than the bank or collector’s input,” John…
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Children of Color Likely to Be Majority of Kids in US by 2020
“Around the time the 2020 Census is conducted, more than half of the nation’s children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group,” the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. “This proportion is expected to continue to grow so that by 2060, just 36 percent of all children (people under age…
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Supreme Court Ruling Supports Whistleblowers and the News Groups That Report Their Stories
Media, Whistleblowers Both Win in Supreme Court Ruling “Were media lawyers asleep at the wheel when a major whistleblower case came through the Supreme Court this term?” Kimberly Chow wrote Monday for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “While all eyes were turned on Jim Risen and efforts to revise Justice Department policies on when it subpoenas…
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Jussie Smollett Signs to Columbia Records
Jussie Smollett’s life is about to imitate his art. The Empire star has signed a record deal with Columbia Records. Smollett, who plays Jamal Lyon on Empire, showcases his singing skills on a weekly basis and can definitely sing. Smollett revealed his record deal to Entertainment Weekly. “There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed…
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Monday’s Dori Maynard Memorial Service to Be Livestreamed
Monday’s memorial service in Oakland for Dori J. Maynard, the president of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who died at 56 on Tuesday after battling lung cancer, will be livestreamed, the institute announced Sunday night. The Bay Area News Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune among its 11 daily newspapers, 27 weeklies and other…
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FCC’s Open-Internet Vote Receives Mixed Reviews
Hispanic Journalists Rejoice; Rainbow PUSH Not So Much “In approving strong net neutrality regulations, the Federal Communications Commission fulfilled a decade long desire by public interest advocates, technology firms and Democrats to tighten government oversight of the Internet to prevent abuses by broadband service providers,” Jim Puzzanghera reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times. “But…
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How Black America Rallied to Stop the Racist Film The Birth of a Nation
A hundred years ago—on March 3, 1915, to be exact—as war consumed Europe, and the United States tried to steer clear of entanglements, some of the best minds and most passionate social-justice advocates had one goal: to stop the opening of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation at the Liberty Theater in New York City’s Times…
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One-Third of Americans Say Obama Doesn’t Love America
More than a third of Americans don’t think President Obama loves America, according to a new survey,” Jesse Byrnes reported Wednesday for the Hill newspaper. Separately, “Over half of Republicans answered ‘Muslim’ when asked which religion describes President Obama’s ‘deep down’ beliefs, according to a newly released poll by Alex Theodoridis of the University of…
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Dori Maynard, a Champion for Diversity in Media, Dies at 56
President of Maynard Institute Succumbs to Lung Cancer Dori J. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard institute for Journalism Education and longtime champion of diversity in journalism and civic life, died Tuesday at her West Oakland, Calif., home, the Institute announced. She was 56. Maynard died of lung cancer and kept her illness closely…
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Mitzi Miller Steps Down as Ebony Editor After 10 Months
Mitzi Miller Wants to Create Stories for TV, Film Mitzi Miller, editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, announced Friday that she is leaving Johnson Publishing Co. She has been Ebony editor for less than a year, assuming that role after spending more than three years as editor of its sister publication Jet, which ended its print edition.…