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Members of Congress Join Hands to Sing ‘We Shall Overcome’
A rare moment took place on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Congressional leaders posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’ highest honor, to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Afterward, the congress members joined hands and sang a harmonious rendition of “We Shall Overcome” to honor the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil…
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Egypt’s Jailing of Journalists for 7-10 Years Sparks International Outcry
President El-Sissi Declares He Won’t Interfere With Ruling “Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, a day after three Al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison in a verdict that prompted an international outcry,” the Associated Press reported from Cairo. “The ruling, on terrorism-related charges, stunned their…
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New FCC Rule Opens Sale of 6 TV Stations
Six Outlets for Sale at “Nominal” Price to Diverse Buyers In light of new government restrictions on owning more than one television station in the same market, Atlanta-based Gray Television, Inc., is seeking to sell six stations at bargain prices to buyers that qualify as “socially disadvantaged enterprises, such as a business controlled by a…
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When Did My Ancestor Buy His Freedom?
Family legend says that my great-great-great-great-grandfather Isom Ellis was a free man of color who bought his freedom and later that of his wife, Patience Bynum. I’d love to know more about him. He was born in 1802 in Wilson County, N.C. I believe he had a son named Robert. —Kevin J. Hagan Jr. Your…
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A Leading Black Think Tank Is Barely Scraping By
Joint Center’s Interim President Working for Free “The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, esteemed as America’s foremost think tank for Black political and economic research, is struggling with financial problems so serious that its political arm has been gutted and its interim president is working for free,” Hazel Trice Edney reported for her…
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Final Print Issue of Jet Never Reached Some Magazine Stands
Final Jet Magazine Never Reached Some Shelves Distributor Shuts Down, Frustrating Many on East Coast Souvenir hunters looking for the last print edition of Jet magazine have found it hard to come by on parts of the East Coast — and maybe elsewhere — because the nation’s second largest magazine distributor suddenly went out of…
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‘Reparations’ Issue Best-Seller for the Atlantic
In Appearance, Coates Also Makes a Case for Journalism “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brief in the Atlantic for why African Americans are owed a debt for the racial penalties paid for since slavery, “has brought more visitors to the Atlantic [website] in a single day than any single piece we’ve ever published,” Atlantic…
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Heart & Soul Magazine Still Owes Writers Thousands
After a Year, Only Half of Promised Settlement Paid More than a year after the National Writers Union and representatives of Heart & Soul magazine agreed that a dozen freelance writers and editors would collect more than $125,000 in unpaid fees, the health and wellness magazine has paid only about half of what it promised,…
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Learning to Live With Internet Haters
Judge me. Last night I watched VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta. When it comes to the image of black people on TV, it gets no worse than most—but not all—of the cast. (Exhibit A: This season’s leading storyline involves an allegedly homemade sex tape that really resembles a slickly produced porno.) Let me plead my…
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Funeral for Raymond Boone Sr., Editor of the Richmond Free Press, Set for Tuesday
Raymond H. Boone Sr., the colorful, principled and feisty founder, editor and publisher of the weekly Richmond (Va.) Free Press, died Tuesday [June 3] at his Richmond home after battling pancreatic cancer, his wife, Jean Boone, told Journal-isms. He was 76. Boone was on the job until nearly the end, said his daughter, Regina Boone, a photographer…