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Were They Gay? Who's Sure? Who Cares?
Rumor, Fact Follow Sherman Hemsley, Sally Ride Deaths On Facebook Tuesday, Joyce Ladner, a former interim president of Howard University, posted a notice about the death of actor Sherman Hemsley of television’s “The Jeffersons” and praised him as “out and proud.” Friends approved with a “like.” No point in being in the closet one’s whole…
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We Need You Now, Bill Raspberry!
(The Root) — Today, we will give Bill Raspberry the kind of send-off he would have appreciated. Prominent journalists, editors, politicians, ordinary people and friends will gather in Washington, D.C.’s majestic National Cathedral to pay their last respects; there will be flowers, music and frequent retellings of one of the most remarkable careers in our…
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Premature Defense of Paterno Statue?
Pundit Admits Opining on Paterno Statue Too Soon File this under “it sounded good at the time” or “too-infrequent admissions by commentators that they aren’t always right.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine blogger, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times last week in which he argued that the statue of Joe Paterno, the disgraced…
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Aurora Shooter's Race Was First News
Racial ID Presaged Suspension of Other Media Rules News consumers learned that the man suspected of shooting 70 people in Aurora, Colo., on Friday was white before they knew his name. NPR described the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 others as a “white male in his early 20s. “On…
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Poll: Mormons and Blacks Still Face Prejudice
Poll: Mormons and blacks still face prejudice: In a piece of news that’s somewhat predictable but especially relevant in light of the upcoming presidential election, a sizable pockets of voters say they would be uncomfortable with a close family member marrying someone who is black or Mormon, with Mormons facing slightly more distrust from people…
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ESPN Writer Gets Into Trouble
Lynn Hoppes, senior director/entertainment at ESPN, former newspaper sports editor and former president of Associated Press Sports Editors, has been scolded for “journalistic laziness” after the Deadspin website found that he had been “shall we say, over-reliant on Wikipedia as a research tool,” as Deadspin put it. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz told Journal-isms Friday by…
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Media Chase Jesse Jackson Jr. Mystery
Whereabouts Prompt Speculation, Denials Less than 24 hours after a veteran Chicago television critic scolded the Chicago media for not solving “the summer’s biggest mystery” — the whereabouts of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. — Jackson’s office issued a statement Wednesday saying, “The Congressman is receiving intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for…
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Wanna Get Married? Get a Degree and a Job
Clutch magazine‘s Danielle C. Belton reviews recent studies that suggest a practical way to increase your odds of finding and keeping a spouse. Marriage advice! Don’t you just love it? (Not really.) But don’t you just love being told that you’re too fat, old, unattractive, bad in bed, corny, angry, bitter, skanky, virginal, black, or…
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Valid Votes Tossed by ID Laws, Report Finds
Number Far Exceeds Cases of Alleged Fraud “When Edward and Mary Weidenbener went to vote in Indiana’s primary in May, they didn’t realize that state law required them to bring government photo IDs such as a driver’s license or passport,” Mike Baker reported Monday for the Associated Press. “The husband and wife, both approaching 90…
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Was 'The Andy Griffith Show' Postracial?
Was the absence of black people in Andy Griffith’s Mayberry, set in North Carolina and broadcast as the civil rights movement intensified during the 1960s, a problem? Not really, according to African American columnists with ties to the state who weighed in on Tuesday’s death of the beloved Griffith at age 86. Television historians have…