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Magazine Degrades Rihanna With Racist Label
Rihanna is at the center of two separate controversies this past weekend that could land her in competition for one of the most racist weekends ever to hit a celebrity. The Dutch magazine Jackie recently did a story on the pop sensation and sparked an uproar when it advised people how to dress like the…
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Time Losing Only Black Correspondent
Steven Gray of Washington Bureau Announces His Exit Five years ago, Journal-isms asked Ali Zelenko, vice president for communications at Time Inc., to name the journalists of color at Time magazine. Among the 15 she listed were black journalists Janice Simpson, assistant managing editor; Ta-Nehisi Coates, staff writer; Perry Bacon Jr., Washington correspondent; and Sonja…
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Is Black Radio Beyond Redemption?
In an entry at The Root DC, blogger Natalie Hopkinson writes that she recently added D.C.’s two FM hip-hop stations to the list of items banned in her house because she grew tired of explaining raunchy lyrics to her children. … and when I heard the radio ad for The Stadium (yeah, that strip club)…
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Survey: Don't Count Out Minority Voters Yet
If the Republicans’ 2012 presidential election strategy rests on a perceived miasma of indifference toward President Obama by black and Hispanic voters, they may have to think again. A survey of black and Latino voters conducted by Brilliant Corners for New York University’s Women of Color Policy Network shows 90 percent of respondents saying they…
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Understanding Your Sphere of Perfection
In a blog entry at The Root DC, motivational speaker Matthew C. Horne dismantles the adage “You can be whatever you want to be.” He says that some things in life cannot be achieved, no matter how hard people work. Everyone, however, is born with a gift. … Without question I believe we all possess…
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Herman Cain Out; Says Media 'Spin Hurts'
Has Infidelity Been Elevated as Electoral Issue? “All along, the Herman Cain campaign — which Politico called ‘one of the most hapless and bumbling operations in modern presidential politics’ — has been riveting but improbable,” Edward Wasserman, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,…
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Young Blacks Want Their Own Businesses
The writers and editors of Businessinsider.com must be sure that most of their readers don’t read Black Enterprise or know any black entrepreneurs (paging Michael Arrington), a conclusion that is also probably true, to a certain extent, for many Americans regardless of race or ethnicity. Most Americans also don’t pay much attention to census reports.…
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Harrowing Sexual Assaults in Cairo
“Two female foreign journalists on Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” Agence France-Presse reported. The situation alarmed other journalists. Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., tweeted Friday, “Saddens me that in 9yrs of war reporting, most personal…
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Publisher Told to Oust Occupy From His Lawn
Raymond H. Boone Scoffs at Citation From Richmond, Va. “A newspaper publisher who is allowing Occupy Richmond protesters to camp in his yard next door to the mayor’s house was slapped Tuesday with a zoning-violation notice,” Reed Williams reported Tuesday for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. But Raymond H. Boone, editor and publisher of the Richmond…
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Black, Latino 'Push-Out' at Washington Post
“The Washington Post has pushed out — or is trying to push out — at least thirteen people through layoffs, coerced buyouts or outright dismissal on dubious charges,” Fredrick Kunkle, co-chair of the Newspaper Guild unit at the Post, wrote in a memo posted on the Guild website Monday. “What’s more troubling is that more…