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Trayvon's Parents to Join Black Journos
The National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday provided more details of its plans to discuss the George Zimmerman trial at its convention next week in Kissimmee, Fla., near Orlando, as talk of a boycott of the state over the not-guilty verdict seemed overshadowed by conflicting reports. “The conference will open with a dynamic plenary session,…
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Native American Journalists on Trayvon Martin
The fallout from the George Zimmerman trial was in the air Friday, as President Obama made a surprise speech about the verdict in the White House press briefing room. But at the National Native Media Conference in Tempe, Ariz., where the Native American Journalists Association was meeting, other topics ruled the day. The words “George…
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The 4th Annual Tin Cup Awards
(The Root) — The Washington Government Relations Group, the oldest organization for African-American government-relations professionals, is holding its Fourth Annual Tin Cup Awards Dinner on Wednesday, July 24, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. The dinner honors individuals for their continued “commitment to the enrichment of African-American government relations professionals.” This year’s awards recipients…
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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…