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Arrest of ‘Black’ Man in Beating of Gay Journalist
Police Sought “Hispanic” but Arrested a “Black Male” Police arrested a Queens, N.Y., man Tuesday in the beating of Randy Gener, an openly gay arts journalist who remained in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery as a result of the attack, New York news media reported. The suspect, Leighton Jennings, was described by police Wednesday…
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Kanye West Pays Teen $250,000 to Settle Alleged Beating
The teen who allegedly called Kim Kardashian everything but a child of God and then received a reported ungodly beat-down from Yeezus has settled with the rapper out of court and received a massive six-figure payday, New York’s Daily News reports. The unidentified 18-year-old, who was alleged to have called Kim “a slut” and a…
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The Death of a Friend Inspires Reflections on Mortality
Something there is about the death of a friend or colleague close to your own age that makes you contemplate your own mortality. It happened to me several years ago when my good friend Ed Bradley passed, and it seems to be happening more frequently now as I am fully ensconced in my 70s. On…
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City Lends Black Community Paper $100,000, Raising Ethical Questions
City Lends Black Community Paper $100,000 The City Council of Winston-Salem, N.C., approved a $100,000 low-interest loan this week to the Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the city’s black community. A rival outlet questioned how the weekly could maintain that its reporting on the city was unbiased, and the publisher of the city’s daily declared,…
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Why Richard Sherman Says ‘Thug’ Is the Same as the N-Word
Player’s Comments Prompt Debate Over ‘T-Word’ “Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman held a press conference Wednesday in which he addressed the backlash to his fiery post-game rant this week and the fact that so many people called him a thug,” Josh Feldman wrote Wednesday for Mediaite. “In fact the word was dropped quite a lot…
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Missing Michigan Doctor Teleka Patrick: Police Still Searching for Clues
Seven weeks after Teleka Patrick went missing, investigators are still searching for clues as to the whereabouts of the promising young Michigan doctor. What they do know, Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard C. Fuller said during a news conference Wednesday, is that Patrick, 30, has disappeared for short stretches of time in the past, checking into a hotel…
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Black Media Companies Want Ad Money From Tobacco Companies, Too
Black Media Outlets Petition for Share of Anti-Tobacco Ads The National Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters on Friday asked the U.S. District Court in Washington to order tobacco companies to include black-owned newspapers and broadcast properties as venues for their anti-smoking ads, Target Market News reported on Monday. “A ruling…
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NABJ Rejects Free Air Travel to Morocco
Board Decides Against Trip Because of Ethical Issues The board of directors of the National Association of Black Journalists decided Friday to turn down $25,000 in free travel from the state airline of Morocco after the trade association of black-newspaper publishers was criticized for accepting an expense-paid visit to the North African country last week.…
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Free Moroccan Trip for Black Press: A Political Maneuver About the Western Sahara
Members of the black press who took an expenses-paid trip to Morocco last week were pawns in a politically motivated move by the Moroccan government in its dispute with the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara, a representative of the occupied region asserted to Journal-isms on Wednesday. The occupied residents, known as Saharawis, have called themselves “the last…
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NAACP Report: Diversity at Banks as Bad as at SNL
Although more people of color than ever are graduating with degrees in accounting and finance, equal opportunity in the banking industry is far from a dream realized, a new report by the NAACP (pdf) has found. The report, which was released on Tuesday, shows that the nation’s five largest banks (Bank of America, Citibank, JP…