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Don Lemon Explains His Position on Stop-and-Frisk
Don Lemon Protests, “I Am Not Supporting Stop-and-Frisk” CNN Anchor Reviled for Commentary on Joyner Radio Show CNN anchor Don Lemon, reviled on social media for a commentary headlined, “STOP and FRISK: Would You Rather Be Politically Correct or Safe and Alive?” told Journal-isms categorically Wednesday, “I am not supporting stop-and-frisk” and said his remarks…
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Tear Down Monuments of Confederate Generals and Slavers?
Newspapers Won’t Rock Boat on Tributes to “Lost Cause” The new movie “12 Years a Slave,” based on a true story, establishes beyond doubt that American slavery was the very definition of evil. So why do monuments to those who fought to perpetuate the evil still dot the landscape of Southern states? And what are…
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‘Ask a Slave’: How Did You Get to Be a House Maid?
(The Root) — Born out of her experience playing the slave maid of George Washington at his Mount Vernon estate, actress Azie Mira Dungey’s acclaimed Web series, Ask a Slave, is a tragicomic homage to the questions she encountered there. Dungey plays the slave Lizzie Mae in the series, which begins its second season on…
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Which Black Governor Was Almost a Senator?
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. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…
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Obama Hosts Meetings With Columnists
Obama Likes “Bull Sessions” With Columnists Handful of Black Journalists Have Participated Even as the Obama administration is being criticized as the “most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” in the words of David E. Sanger of the New York Times, President Obama himself is increasingly talking at length in off-the-record sessions with small…
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From Which Port Was Slave Ancestor Sold?
(The Root) — “I’ve completed the African Ancestry paternal lineage test and it says that I have Angolan heritage. I would like to find information about the ports that people from Angola were sold from to the United States — and where they landed —- in hopes of pinpointing where my Angolan ancestors came from. My…
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Beyoncé, Skilled Photobomber
(The Root) — If Beyoncé is going to be perfect, she could at least be bad at taking photos. Geez. At a concert in Australia, Beyoncé descended from her throne onstage to sing with her fans in the audience. A smart teenage girl moved quickly to capture the moment with her phone, and she ended…
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Is Unity Dead?
Unity Is Dead, Co-Founders Say Remaining Associations Not Ready to Throw in the Towel The two men credited with the idea for the coalition of journalists-of-color associations say the Unity organization that sprang from their efforts is dead. “UNITY? There is no UNITY,” said Will Sutton of the National Association of Black Journalists. “There hasn’t…
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Budding Dark-Skinned Superstar?
(The Root) — 12 Years a Slave is being hailed as the front-runner to sweep the next Academy Awards. In addition to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s powerful performance and Steve McQueen’s forceful direction, there is Lupita Nyong’o’s haunting turn as a slave named Patsey. Nyong’o’s ability to convey Patsey’s grace and humanity, regardless of the abuse and…
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When a 'Redskin' Is in the Family
(Special to The Root) — I never knew my maternal grandfather’s mother. She was one of my great-grandmothers. Her name was Alice Apple Woods. And she was a Native American. Her name came up this week as I watched a PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with my 11-year-old son, Cole. I…