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Why We're Moving Back South
Thomas Clark was one of those committed New Yorkers. “For me it was the whole urban dynamic of being in a big city, being in the financial center of the world,” said the former New York state banking official and onetime president and CEO of Carver Federal Savings Bank. Commuting into Manhattan from his White…
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'The Help': Is the Ending Implausible?
“When I read ‘The Help’ two years ago (I couldn’t put it down) and watched the film last Saturday (which made me laugh and cry), I could feel the pain of another white 40-something Mississippian who wants to make it all better. “She’s pining for a happier ending for our state, and she’s using her…
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Jet Magazine to Add Opinion Pieces
Johnson Publishing Co. plans to address Jet magazine’s competitive disadvantage with Internet publications by adding opinions and perspective pieces to the print magazine, Johnson CEO Desiree Rogers told Journal-isms on Wednesday. “You can curate and have opinions on what happened over the week,” she said. Jet can also offer “more of what you’ve loved all…
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Black Colleges Actively Recruiting Nonblack Students
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that historically black colleges and universities are actively recruiting nonblack students. Sue Shellenbarger reports that many of the nation’s 105 historically black colleges are increasingly wooing nonblack students, in what has become a mutually beneficial relationship for schools and students. The goals: to boost lagging enrollment and offset funding…
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Media Coverage of UK Riots Questioned
Hundreds Complain About Racial Remarks on BBC “The BBC has received nearly 700 complaints about the historian and broadcaster David Starkey’s claim that ‘whites have become black’ during a discussion about last week’s riots on Newsnight,” Lisa O’Carroll reported Monday for Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Of those contacting the BBC, 696 were protesting about Starkey’s comments,…
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Who Let R. Kelly Lead a Kids' Parade?
Who let R. Kelly lead a kids’ parade? Over the weekend, the singer who famously beat child-pornography charges (and also admits that he can’t really read) served as grand marshal of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood’s annual back-to-school parade for children. We’d love someone to explain how this wasn’t among the most misguided decisions of the year.…
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Ebony and Jet Increase Circulations
Ebony and Jet magazines reversed circulation declines in the first half of 2011, according to new figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, on the heels of a redesign of Ebony and the outsourcing of circulation duties at Ebony and Jet. Hispanic-interest titles also dominated the fastest-growing magazines, Lucia Moses reported for Adweek. “Poder Hispanic,…
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NABJ 'Happy' for Al Sharpton Opportunity
Activist Says Black Journalists Would Be Part of His Show The Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday that if his show on MSNBC is made permanent, black journalists will be a part of it. In a telephone call to Journal-isms, Sharpton said he understood that only a few had complained that journalists, not Sharpton, should have…
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Author Leslie Esdaile Banks Dies at 51
Leslie Esdaile Banks, the prolific author of a best-selling series of vampire novels, romance books, paranormal thrillers and works of nonfiction, died Tuesday at age 51. She had adrenal cancer. Her production totaled more than 40 books, many of which were set in Philadelphia and featured African-American characters. Banks, who wrote her vampire titles under…
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Natalie Cole on Hep C: Lose the Stigma
She’s the Grammy Award-winning daughter of legendary singer Nat King Cole, but Natalie Cole’s most recent performance wasn’t designed to honor her family’s musical legacy or advance her own career. At a benefit concert for the American Liver Foundation last week, her only aim was to raise awareness about the seldom-talked-about and poorly understood disease…