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Sulaimon Brown: Committee Finds Job Claim Questionable
Nikita Stewart of the Washington Post is reporting that a congressional committee has concluded that Sulaimon Brown appeared to receive money from people with ties to a campaign aide of Mayor Vincent C. Gray, but there is no direct evidence that he was promised a city job in return for disparaging then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty…
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Oakland Tribune Name to Live On
“The Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and several other East Bay newspapers will retain their own mastheads, and the Tribune will open two new community media laboratories in Oakland, executives of the papers’ parent company announced Thursday,” George Avalos reported for the Tribune. Martin G. Reynolds, editor of the Tribune, told Journal-isms on Friday that…
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Give Me Some Relevance on TV
One night recently I watched an episode of Good Times. The plot dealt with the 11-year-old militant yet cherubic character, Michael, being suspended from school for telling his teacher that George Washington was a racist slave owner. As his mother chastises him, he protests, “Mama, ‘boy’ is a white racist word.” The rest of the…
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Survey Links 'Occupy' Coverage and Support
60 Percent of Those Who Follow News of Protests Favor Them The news media were initially accused of ignoring the Occupy Wall Street protests that have since spread across the country, and a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Washington Post finds a link between coverage…
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Michele Norris Taking Break as NPR Co-Host
Husband Takes Top Job With Obama Re-Election Campaign Michele Norris, co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” is taking a leave from the hosting job until after the 2012 elections because her husband, Broderick Johnson, has “has just accepted a senior advisor position with the Obama Campaign,” Norris told NPR staff members on Monday. “I will…
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Rep. Clyburn: Obama Will Win Re-Election
Rep. James Clyburn has seen a lot change in his 71 years — in his native South Carolina and the country. The son of “an activist fundamentalist minister and an independent civic-minded beautician,” as he describes them in his official bio, is the assistant Democratic leader in the 112th Congress and No. 3 Democrat in…
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Bryant Gumbel Stands With NBA Millionaires
Bryant Gumbel Says NBA Commissioner Treats Players Like Slaves On his recent HBO’s Real Sports broadcast, Bryant Gumbel said that NBA Commissioner David Stern, who has been going one-on-one with the NBA Players Association over a new collective bargaining agreement for months, continually used tactics that were demeaning to the athletes. “[Stern] has always seemed…
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Texas Rapist Targeting Deltas?
Texas rapist targets Deltas: The Dallas Morning news reports that a serial rapist appears to be targeting suburban members of the predominantly black Delta Sigma Theta sorority in Plano and Denton County, Texas, prompting warnings that local members not advertise their affiliation with the group. VIDEO: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s babies: Check out their…
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12 Top Black Chefs and Restaurateurs
B. Smith restaurants There are three B. Smith restaurants on the East Coast: in Washington, D.C., New York City and Sag Harbor, N.Y. If you’re big on brunch, like many buppies in cosmopolitan cities, B. Smith offers a smoked salmon platter, sweet potato pecan pancakes and cinnamon brioche French toast. And B. Smith tries to…
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What Has Been the Impact of Anita Hill?
Twenty years ago Anita Hill, University of Oklahoma law professor and private citizen, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and threw a giant monkey wrench into the well-oiled, old-boys machine that was rubber-stamping Clarence Thomas’ confirmation to the Supreme Court. Of course, to the shock and lingering dismay of many (Thurgood Marshall still sits somewhere…