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Jet's Aged Fantasia Cover: A Bad Choice?
Magazine Stands Behind 10-Year-Old Cover Shot Relying on public relations photos for your cover shots can be messy, as Jet magazine is finding out. Jet editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller on Friday issued a defense of the magazine’s use of a 10-year-old photo of cover subject Fantasia. “JET magazine is honored to have Fantasia grace the cover…
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On Jesse Jackson Jr. and Being Bipolar
(The Root) — It’s important to remember that for Jesse Jackson Jr., it didn’t have to be this way. There were choices made and choices that would have to be lived with, and there was no chance for continued procrastination. And he’d seen both the right and wrong paths, demonstrated in his passionate, charming but…
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Can JC Watts Help GOP Win Black Voters?
(The Root) — Still reeling from its losses in the 2012 election, the Republican Party has begun doing some serious soul-searching. Increasingly that search has led party leaders on a quest to re-evaluate what the party stands for, who it speaks for and, lately, whether or not it needs a little more soul in it.…
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The Second Wave of the Digital Divide
(The Root) — Today, in early 2013, American media and entertainment face a curious condition. On the one hand, African Americans and other people of color are flocking to movies, Twitter, television and blogs in ever-greater numbers and percentages. We are huge consumers of media. On the other hand, the Federal Communications Commission and the…
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Ensuring Black Firms Have Success Tools
(Special to The Root) — In today’s economy, entrepreneurs play a critical role in bolstering America’s economic vitality and competitiveness throughout the world. Our small-business owners and innovators have always been united by the shared American dream that every person, with hard work and dedication, has the potential to achieve remarkable things. In his State…
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Dorner Manhunt Echoed Hollywood Crime Tales
“With elements echoing many of the fixtures of Hollywood’s fictional crime tales, Tuesday’s showdown with real-life fugitive Christopher Dorner brought the conflicting agendas of law enforcement and the media into sharp relief, spotlighting the challenges — and pitfalls — of such immersive live coverage,” AJ Marechal reported Tuesday for Variety. “Uncensored obscenities made it on…
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Are Magazine Staffs Whiter Than the GOP?
“The New Republic is catching heat for its latest cover story about the Republican party, titled ‘The Party of White People: An Historical Investigation,’ ” Dylan Byers wrote Monday for Politico. It might be the most attention that the issue of the diversity of media staffs has received from a non-journalism publication in years. The…
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Rob Parker Gets Online Columnist Gig
Less than a month after ESPN decided not to renew his contract over controversial remarks he made during the “First Take” talk show, commentator Rob Parker has landed a columnist’s spot on Keith Clinkscales’s new digital sports platform. A Wednesday news release began, “Today, TheShadowLeague.com announced award-winning sports columnist Rob Parker has been added to…
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New Black Leader at Washington Post
Maynard Grad Is First Black Journalist to Assume the Title Kevin Merida, national editor at the Washington Post, was named a managing editor at the newspaper Monday, the highest position a black journalist has achieved at the Post. Marty Baron, the former Boston Globe editor who became Post executive editor in January, called a meeting…
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Why Was Cotton 'King'?
(The Root) — 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro No. 17: How much did the cotton industry shape American history and the lives of enslaved Africans? “C” stands for Cotton. Its beautiful bolls, And bales of rich value, the Master controls. Of “mud-stills” he prates, and would haughtily bring The world to acknowledge that “Cotton is King.”…