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Gabourey Sidibe: Not Just 'Precious,' Part 2
The Root) — Gabourey Sidibe, who scored an Oscar nomination for her starring role in Precious two years ago, was happy to take on another role portraying a troubled teen in Yelling to the Sky. But she had one big problem with writer and first-time feature-film director Victoria Mahoney’s script. She wasn’t really keen on…
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Pulitzer Winner Robin Givhan Laid Off
Fashion Journalist Leaving Newsweek/Daily Beast Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist, is among those laid off from Newsweek and the Daily Beast, according to Joe Coscarelli, writing Friday for the Daily Intel column of New York magazine. ” ‘I plan to work on my book about the 1973 Versailles fashion show and look for…
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Jovan Belcher Coverage Praised, Panned
News outlets were praised and criticized for their coverage of the murder-suicide involving Jovan Belcher, the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself Saturday. Not only did commentators evaluate coverage of the tragedy by CBS, ESPN and the NFL Network as a news event, but they also…
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3 Chords and the Truth With Gary Clark Jr.
(The Root) – At age 12 Gary Clark Jr., a guitarist and singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, heard his first blues record and was immediately hooked. Now, after four independent albums of rock and roll, Clark has released his major-label debut, Blak and Blu. The multigenre set features classic blues, rock and even airy R&B, and…
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FCC Opens FM Stations to Community Groups
More Than 6,000 Applications Awaiting Approval “Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create lower-power FM radio, a new class of noncommercial radio stations aimed at increasing diversity on the radio airwaves,” Katy…
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HIV-Positive Woman Tells Story to Break Stigma
As we usher in the 25th annual World AIDS Day, many in the activism community say that aside from HIV/AIDS education, stigma is the biggest problem facing those with the disease today. In response, Washington, D.C., health worker Sabrina Heard, who is HIV positive, shared her story with the Huffington Post about learning she’d contracted…
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A Pioneer Activist on World AIDS Day
(The Root) — This year marks the 25th celebration of World AIDS Day, and according to activists like National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS founder and current OraSure Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Debra Fraser-Howze, it’s been a tumultuous but rewarding journey. In the early 1980s, Fraser-Howze was working with the Urban League to…
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NBC News to Pay Its College Interns
Move, Planned for Spring, Expected to Boost Diversity NBC News is planning to pay its interns starting in the spring of 2013, according to a well-placed source at the network, addressing a long-held contention that requiring interns to work only for the experience or for college credit amounts to favoring students with well-to-do parents. The…
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Developing an African Voice: Chinua Achebe
The Role of the Writer in Africa What then were we to do as writers? What was our role in our new country? How were we to think about the use of our talents? I can say that when a number of us decided that we would be writers, we had not thought through these…
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New Edition Wins Top Soul Train Music Award
(The Root) — The Soul Train Awards 2012 was the first time in the 25-year history of the ceremony that it was without its creator, Don Cornelius. For that reason, this year’s edition, which was taped at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and aired on BET and Centric on Sunday night, had to be…