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Facebook COO: Are Women in Their Own Way?
Black Snob‘s Danielle C. Belton weighs in on the smoldering debate surrounding Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s comments about women holding themselves back at work, arguing that the conversation is more nuanced and should really revolve around promoting better family leave for all workers. On 60 Minutes this Sunday there was an eye-opening interview with…
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How Did Harriet Tubman Become a Legend?
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 Negro…
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Essence Editor Says She Was Fired
Exit Followed Clashes Over Time Inc. View of Black Women Constance C.R. White has disclosed that her departure as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine was involuntary and the result of repeated clashes with Martha Nelson, the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. who White says sought to limit the way black women were portrayed. “I went in there…
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Black Men in Brazil for Women? These Tired Conversations Have to Stop
Writing at Clutch magazine, Zettler Clay says that when it comes to male-female relationships, it’s a dangerous game to take one narrative and apply it as the default. Recently, a documentary made its way into my Gmail inbox. Frustrated: Black American Men in Brazil expounds on a piece published a few years ago in Essence about Black…
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'60 Minutes' to Lose Black Reporter to ABC
ABC News is finalizing a deal to hire Byron Pitts of CBS, a contributor to “60 Minutes” and chief national correspondent for the “CBS Evening News, ” according to reliable news reports published Friday. “Pitts will serve as both chief national correspondent and anchor at ABC News, and will appear across the network’s programming. ABC…
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French Mag Issues Blackface Apology
The French magazine that published a photo of a darkened 16-year-old white girl under the title “African Queen” apologized Wednesday “to anyone who may have been offended.” But the magazine’s management offered a different explanation of what the photo represented than did the photographer, and the controversy again shone a light on the lack of…
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CNN's New Journalism Hires Are All White
CNN President Jeff Zucker met Monday in Atlanta with leaders of the National Association of Black Journalists in the wake of Zucker’s failure to include journalists of color among his first few appointments and the elimination of his “Starting Point” morning show hosted by Soledad O’Brien. NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. said he wanted…
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The Onion's Apology Was a Mistake, and I'd Say That If Quvenzhané Were My Daughter
Elisabeth Epps explains in a piece for her personal blog why she didn’t share in the outrage when the satirical publication used profanity to slam a young black actress. … Then — unlike the onslaught of misogynistic mockery — out of nowhere, came this baseless, asinine, universally offensive barb slung circuitously at an adorable…
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Why the Onion's Crappy Apology Is Worthless
(The Root) — When I watched Quvenzhané Wallis telling the story of a little girl called Hushpuppy and her adventures living in a poor Bayou area in Beasts of the Southern Wild, I was enchanted by how well she articulated her life and the world around her. I had so much hope that she might…
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The Onion Apologizes for Wallis Tweet
(The Root) — On Monday, CEO Steve Hannah posted a rare apology on behalf of the staff members who called 9-year-old best actress nominee Quvenzhané Wallis the c-word in a tweet from its official Twitter account during the broadcast of the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday. “It was crude and offensive — not to mention…