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Black Journos Forced Into Tough Spots
Gannett Removes Stovall as Editor at Binghamton, N.Y. Calvin Stovall was removed Wednesday as executive editor of the Gannett Co.’s Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., in what was described as a cost-saving move. It was but one in a series of personnel decisions that have forced black journalists to run gauntlets created by their…
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Obama: Standing in the Shadow of MLK
(The Root) — In my grandmother’s Arkansas home hangs a portrait of President Barack Obama with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the portrait has written beneath the two men “We Have a Dream; the Dream Has Come True.” It was one of many paintings, posters, buttons, T-shirts and other products that came…
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Black Twitter Panel Possible at SXSW
(The Root) — It’s time to start voting for next year’s South by Southwest panels, and one is of particular interest to black people in the Twitter world. This year’s proposed panels for the event — a conglomerate of music, film and interactive festivals held yearly in Austin, Texas — range from Internet law to…
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Let Coolio Cook: Buy His Music Catalog
It’s no secret that rapper Coolio (real name: Artis Leon Ivey Jr.) traded in his microphone for a spatula years ago. The performer behind some of the biggest hip-hop hits of the 1990s (“Fantastic Voyage,” “Gangsta’s Paradise”) had an online cooking show, Cookin’ With Coolio, and released a cookbook of the same name in 2009.…
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Awash in the March on Washington
“In the opening line of his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom would ‘go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,’ ”…
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Race Conversation We're Already Having
(The Root) — Whether or not we want to admit it, Americans are finally engaging in a national conversation about race and democracy. But it’s not happening in a single town hall forum televised on C-SPAN or through a Twitter chat hosted by President Obama, with millions tuning in. No, this conversation has been happening…
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Journalists Ignore Warnings to Flee Egypt
Journalists Don’t Heed U.S. Warnings to Flee Despite Egypt’s Danger, “There’s a Story Going On” The State Department warned U.S. citizens “to defer travel to Egypt and U.S. citizens living in Egypt to depart at this time because of the continuing political and social unrest,” but for journalists, it was no time to leave. “American…
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Have I Wasted the Civil Rights Legacy?
(The Root) — I have a friend, a good friend, with whom I share an affliction. He, too, comes from a good family that has done many great things in the face of dire situations, which he and I would learn about only in books. We read about the “Whites Only” bathrooms, lunch counters, the…
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Networks 'Never Seem to Find That Person of Color'
“PBS and Al Jazeera America are shaking up the status quo by hiring a diverse group of journalists for key on-air positions. The moves reflect the networks’ conscious effort to become more multicultural in their approach, executives tell TheWrap,” Sara Morrison wrote Sunday for The Wrap. “When Gwen Ifill. . . and Judy Woodruff were named the co-anchors of PBS…
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Some of My Best Friends Are White
(The Root) — When the Lena Dunham-created show Girls became a hit for HBO, one of the complaints was the show’s lack of diversity despite being set in ethnically diverse New York City. Well, as it turned out, Dunham admitted (in a more eloquent way than I’m about to put it) that she didn’t write…