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Lupita Nyong’o Is Against Turning 12 Years a Slave Site Into Baseball Stadium
Actress Lupita Nyong’o is adding her voice to those opposed to turning Richmond, Va.’s Shockoe Bottom—a site once known as the center of the slave trade—into a minor-league baseball stadium for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Associated Press reports. The site, which was also used to film 12 Years a Slave, in which Nyong’o played…
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Radio Host Convicted of Mortgage Fraud
“People’s Lawyer” Accused of Bilking Lenders of $10 Million “A federal jury convicted former national radio host Warren Ballentine on Friday of participating in Chicago-area mortgage fraud schemes that bilked lenders out of nearly $10 million,” Jason Meisner reported for the Chicago Tribune. “The jury deliberated about an hour before finding Warren Ballentine guilty on…
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Moderators of the 2014 Debates Overwhelmingly Are White Men
Debate Questioners Overwhelmingly White Men “The journalists questioning candidates in this fall’s biggest campaign debates are overwhelmingly white men, according to an msnbc analysis of the nation’s most contested Senate and gubernatorial races,” Krystal Ball and Anne L. Thompson reported Wednesday for MSNBC.com. “In the closest [Senate] races, 7 out of 10 of debate moderators and panelists were men,…
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Ben Bradlee, Newspaper Editor of Watergate Fame, Dies at 93
Fabled Editor, Dead at 93, Acknowledged His Ignorance After Benjamin C. Bradlee entered hospice care in mid-September, this columnist asked a few female reporters and black journalists who worked under Bradlee in the Washington Post of the 1970s to assess him, anticipating the inevitable. Most declined. It is clear, however, that while the Bradlee era…
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African Journalists Are Disinvited From US Speaking Engagements Because of Ebola
Universities of Ga., South Fla. Cancel Invitations to Africans “Officials at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg uninvited 14 journalists from African countries to visit for three weeks on Oct. 31 for the annual Edward R. Murrow Visiting Journalists program. The program is organized by the US Department of State for foreign journalists to…
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Long-Term Unemployed Are Largely Ignored in a Recovering Economy
Is it a recovering economy or not? That’s one of the great, persistent mysteries stumping modern economists and pundits. Most obviously don’t think so—a recent Politico poll tells the story of a national mood in perpetual funk. The answer is not that simple, and it’s hidden in pockets of partisan quackery obfuscating a solution. Each…
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10 Rap Songs That Would Be As Big (Or Bigger) Today As When They Came Out
Last weekend, I found myself in an actual (and serious) conversation about the merits of No Limit Records. I’m a southerner so I have a vast appreciation for the house that Master P built in terms of what it did for budding entreprenuers on a national scale (and by national I mean east coasters, southern and…
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Did a Black Man Invent Crest Toothpaste?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 96: Which…
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NABJ Criticism Prompts CNN to ‘Reconsider’ Sponsorship
Journalists Say Network Retaliates After Criticism Two days after the National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement saying it “is concerned about the atmosphere for African Americans at CNN,” a representative of the network told NABJ President Bob Butler that the network was withdrawing its support of the association’s 2015 convention, Butler said in…
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Study: Photos of Black Voters Affect White Voters’ View of Voter-ID Laws
Researchers from the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication have released a new study suggesting that photographs of black Americans using voting machines affect white respondents’ support of voter-ID laws. According to the study (pdf), when white survey respondents saw an image of black Americans using ballot machines, they had stronger support for voter ID…