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National Media’s Portrayal of Marion Barry Was Misleading
D.C. Journalists Say National Reporters Missed the Nuance Near the end of the autobiography he wrote this year with novelist Omar Tyree, four-time Washington mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., recalled his time as a ward representative on the D.C. City Council. “Everyone above the line at The Washington Post, including most of the key editors,…
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Rapper Cool C to Be Executed for Shooting Death of Cop During Bank Robbery
Rapper Cool C, on death row for the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer, is scheduled to be executed Jan. 8 after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett signed his death warrant, the New York Daily News reports. Cool C, whose legal name is Christopher Roney, tried to rob a PNC Bank in 1996, when he…
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Former DC Mayor Marion Barry Dies at 78
Marion Barry, the storied four-term mayor and current Washington, D.C., Council member, died early Sunday, just hours after a brief stay at Howard University Hospital, the Washington Post reports, citing a family statement. He was 78. The family did not release the cause of death, but Barry had suffered from many health problems over the…
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NBC and Netflix Pull Bill Cosby Projects Amid Rape Allegations
Updated Wed., Nov. 19, 4:15 p.m. EST: Bill Cosby’s downward spiral continues as NBC announces that it has canceled its plans to develop a new comedy starring the famous TV dad, the New York Times reports. According to the report, the television broadcasting company did not say why it suddenly scrapped the anticipated project, but it…
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Veteran Journalists Dispense Advice Students Can Take to the Bank
Black Columnists Offer Tips for Success in Changing Field Members of the William Monroe Trotter Group of African American columnists, meeting on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., were asked to impart advice to mass communications students on Tuesday. What they said sprang from decades of experience and was practical, heartfelt and…
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Even George Clinton Gets Old—but the Atomic Dog Still Has a Lot of Funk Left in Him
George Clinton is an old man now. He is 73, and gone are the days when he used to hop on the table of some dinner theater’s guest, midperformance, and pour wine over his head. He doesn’t wear a diaper made out of hotel towels anymore; and he’s traded in his colorful hair extensions for…
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Diversity at Top of PBS News Operation
Marie Nelson Named VP of News, Public Affairs Marie Nelson, a broadcast executive who was founding executive producer of NPR’s “Tell Me More,” worked at ABC-TV’s “Nightline” and oversaw projects at Black Entertainment Television, was named vice president, news and public affairs Friday at PBS, the network of “PBS NewsHour,” Ken Burns documentaries and the investigative…
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C-SPAN Caller Live: ‘Republicans Hate That N–ger Obama’
A live debate Thursday on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal turned nasty when a caller identifying himself as a California Republican called President Obama the n-word, the New York Daily News notes. During the open-phone-call portion of the show, Anthony from San Diego—as he identified himself—told his fellow Republicans not to rest on their midterm-election-victory laurels. “I…
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How Will That Shocker of an Election Shake Things Up on the Road to 2016?
The next two years will be twisted in knots—for Democrats, for Republicans and for the “black electorate.” University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald estimates that a little less than 37 percent of the voter-eligible population voted in this week’s election. That prompted President Obama to mic-drop twice during his mea culpa-less postelection press conference that…