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NFL Making Headway With Race but Needs to Hire More Women
The NFL has made efforts to hire more people of color, the Associated Press’ Steve Reed reports at the Huffington Post, but the league should strengthen its “gender hiring practices.” The NFL received its fourth consecutive A grade for its racial hiring practices amid concerns over a significant drop in minority head coaches this season.…
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Latinos Follow Blacks, Leave Diversity Group
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted Tuesday to leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, following a similar departure two years ago of the National Association of Black Journalists. The vote was 13 to 2 with three board members absent, President Hugo Balta told Journal-isms. Voting no were Nathan Olivares-Gilles and Erin Ailworth. Absent…
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Obama Appoints 1st Black Chief Judge of US Court of Federal Claims
(The Root) — Just a month after Patricia E. Campbell-Smith was appointed a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and two days after being confirmed, President Barack Obama has promoted her to the position of chief judge of the court. With the appointment, Judge Campbell-Smith is the first African American to hold that…
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Black Woman's Cooking Invention Hits Mainstream
The day Mary Hunter, 73, of Gary, Ind., came up with the idea for a way to marinate the inside of the big roasts she would make for her fellow congregation members at Yes Lord Church, she knew she had invented a revolutionary cooking tool. But according to a profile on Hunter in the New…
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NAACP Names Female Interim President
(The Root) — The NAACP Saturday announced that Lorraine C. Miller, a member of the national board of directors since 2008, would become interim president and CEO of the 104-year-old organization. In doing so, she’s the organization’s first interim president and the first woman to fill the president-executive secretary’s role since 1916, a spokesman told…
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Light-Skinned Only on New Latino Network?
The new Fusion network, aimed at English-speaking Latino millennials, is following in the footsteps of its Spanish-language counterparts and so far is featuring only light-skinned Hispanics. Asked whether Afro-Latinos will be on the network, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision, spokesman David Ford told Journal-isms by email, “He’s not an Afro-Latino, but Derrick…
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Why Kendrick Lamar Is a Sensitive Rapper
(The Root) — While the federal government hangs by the hair of its chinny chin chin, hip-hop MC Kendrick Lamar is playing the big, bad wolf, challenging rappers during Tuesday night’s broadcast of the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher to step up their art and performance in respect for the culture’s battle tradition. Surrounded…
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Black Women in Media: Gold Diggers, Jezebels and Baby Mamas?
In the media, “negative imagery of Black women is seen often twice as frequently as positive imagery,” according to a survey of more than 1,200 respondents appearing in the November issue of Essence magazine. They “told us that the images we encounter regularly on TV, in social media, in music videos and from other outlets…
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Coalition for Diversity in Journalism May Lose Hispanic Members
Leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists recommended Monday that the association leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, an action that would leave the onetime Unity: Journalists of Color with two of the original four journalist-of-color associations and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. In a message to members posted on the…
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Were There ‘Mulatto’ Slave Traders?
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…