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Obama Speech Came After Black Prodding
President Obama’s surprise remarks Friday on the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, in which Obama declared, “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” came after public prodding by some of his supporters, sometimes on op-ed pages. Mark Landler and Michael D. Shear reported Friday for the New York Times that the speech followed “anguished…
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Is Ray Kelly in Line to Head Homeland Security?
At the Washington Post’s “She The People” blog, Mary C. Curtis argues that if President Barack Obama nominates New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as head of Homeland Security, they should both expect pointed questions about the department’s massively aggressive stop-and-frisk program and his record in general. But while the president was not asked, nor did…
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Did Africans Immigrate to Jim Crow America?
(The Root) — “My great-great-grandfather was named Issac Rowen. He came from Guinea to work as a fisherman sometime in the post-Civil War period. My late great-aunt told me that he came to the U.S. with a group of white men. He worked as a fisherman in New Orleans until was killed, by being thrown…
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Boycott of Florida Would Cost NABJ $1M
Association Wants Martin, Zimmerman Families in Orlando Even though some members of the National Association of Black Journalists are so upset by the not-guilty verdict delivered George Zimmerman that they urged NABJ to pull out of Florida for the convention scheduled in two weeks, such a pullout would cost the association more than $1 million,…
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Killing in Self-Defense: You Better Be White
(The Root) — It doesn’t hurt to have a little white privilege on your side. If you can get it. And George Zimmerman got the most out of what privilege he had after being found not guilty in the murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. After the verdict, Zimmerman’s attorneys held a press conference, and…
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New Rules: No Criminalizing Journalists
Journalists reacted with cautious approval Friday to an announcement by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that he was revising Justice Department procedures that enraged reporters this year as the department pursued leak investigations. “I’m cautiously optimistic,” said Hugo Balta, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the only leader of a journalist-of-color organization…
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Roland Martin to Host Morning TV Show
A day after TV One announced that Roland Martin would host a new daily morning show on its network, Journal-isms asked Martin, “What have the stories about your new show failed to mention?” Martin replied by email: “That no other Black network has taken on such an ambitious project to launch a show in the…
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Target's Ridiculous Reminders About Hispanic People
According to a lawsuit filed against Target this week, three of the company’s warehouse locations used a training document on “cultural tips” that contained a combination of ridiculously obvious and stereotypical, offensive pieces of advice related to Hispanic workers, the Huffington Post reports. Breaking news: They might now all be wearing sombreros. (Seriously, that was…
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Blacks Most Likely to Get News From TV
Internet Is Second Choice for All Groups, Gallup Says “Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%,” the Gallup Organization reported Monday, with people of color turning to television more than whites and less to the Internet, print and radio. The organization…
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Racism Can Make You Sick
As if people of color didn’t already have enough to worry about, now Harvard sociologist David Williams says that racial minorities who live in race-conscious societies get sick at younger ages, have more severe illnesses and die sooner than whites, according to Psychology Today. Williams was one of several presenters at a conference last week…