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Black Indie Filmmaker Pens Letter to Lucas
George Lucas’ recent comments about the difficulty of securing funding for Red Tails — the headline-grabbing movie released this week that chronicles the groundbreaking achievements of the Tuskegee Airmen — have plenty of African Americans rushing to buy tickets to prove Hollywood naysayers wrong. It seems that the black film community is on the edge…
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George Curry Group Buys Heart & Soul
Sandra Guzman, Formerly of Latina, Named Editor-in-Chief A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-and-wellness magazine targeting African Americans, and named former Latina magazine editor-in-chief Sandra Guzman its top editor as part of an effort to broaden its focus. “Racial and ethnic minorities constituted 91.7 percent of…
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Black Republicans Make Their Choice
With four Republican candidates left in the presidential race, each giving his all in the countdown to the South Carolina primary on Saturday, the GOP electorate is still up for grabs. And despite the persistent “Mitt Romney is inevitable” narrative, for many Republican voters the nominee is anything but a foregone conclusion. The Root spoke…
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How Well Do You Really Know Ron Paul?
With views that lean more libertarian than textbook conservative, Ron Paul swept the youth vote in the 2012 Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, placing third in both contests. And despite his conservative platform and the existence of newsletters containing racist statements that went out under his name decades ago, the Texas congressman’s stands against…
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NPR Loses Another Black Male Voice
Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…
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Day of Reckoning for Pat Buchanan
MSNBC to Decide Whether to Return Commentator to Air After years of complaints that commentator Pat Buchanan’s diatribes were racist and anti-Semitic, MSNBC is ready to make a decision about whether to return Buchanan to the air. “Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin…
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Tavis and Cornel's Solution to Poverty
Last summer PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley and author Cornel West embarked on an 18-city poverty tour to highlight the hardship of poor people. Despite a record number of Americans — one in two — either living below the poverty line or classified as low-income, they felt that poor people had been rendered invisible by…
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Is Jay-Z Now a Relationship Role Model?
In an entry at his Very Smart Brothas blog, Damon Young deconstructs Jay-Z’s past as a so-called player and decides that he does not get to become a role model simply because he overhauled his image. He may be a loving husband and father, but he is not a role model. … But calling the…
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Mrs. YoMama Controversy: Not Again
One thing I hate to do is act as teacher to the clueless. But it’s clear, after the speaker of the Kansas House, Republican Mike O’Neal, forwarded an email with pictures making fun of first lady Michelle Obama’s appearance and calling her “Mrs. YoMama,” that school is once again in session. You would think these…
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Were Blacks and Latinos Dissed or Just Ignored?
Muted Coverage of GOP Candidates’ Posture on Race No Blacks, Latinos on Time Magazine Political Team Black Women Contributing to New Washington Post Blog New Yorker, Miami Herald Join Univision-Marco Rubio Feud Ken Ward, 44, Dies Before Starting New Job in Tampa Claudia Pryor Malis, Television Producer, Documentarian Melissa Harris-Perry Awarded Weekend MSNBC Show Short…