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Merck Names Black Chief Executive
Merck, the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical company, has named Kenneth C. Frazier, an African American, as its chief executive. Frazier, 55, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has been the company’s general counsel and president and was expected to rise to the No. 1 job. He will succeed Richard T. Clark on Jan. 1. Clark will remain as chairman.…
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Rene Syler: Tears of Joy When the Perm Was Gone
Television’s René Syler Says “I Hope Times Are Changing” The last time many viewers saw René Syler, she was a co-anchor of CBS News’ “The Early Show,” with her hair chemically straightened and then hot curled. After four years, that job ended in 2006. She dealt with breast cancer surgery and other medical issues, wrote…
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The Great Urban Communication Divide
In a long and thoughtful Washington City Paper profile last week, veteran journalist Courtland Milloy was hailed as the “crotchety grandpa the city needs.” The writer, Rend Smith, gave the Washington Post columnist credit for being among the few mainstream writers tuned in to the racially polarized passions that toppled 39-year-old incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty…
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The Root Review: A Free Man of Color
New Orleans in the early part of the 19th century was a singular place — and it still is. Before the Louisiana Purchase, the city’s racial and social barriers were permeable in ways they would never be again. John Guare’s latest play, the kaleidoscopic A Free Man of Color, now at the Vivian Beaumont Theater…
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A 3-Pronged Tale of Black Migration
Isabel Wilkerson has added another important book to the long tradition of serious writings on the interplay between American society’s white-supremacist practices and the migration of black American citizens out of the viciously racist South to the North and West. Wilkerson subtitles her book, The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House, 2010), “The Epic Story…
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Obama Predicted to Win 2012 Election by Landslide
First people were saying that the Republicans were going to take the White House in 2012. Candidates like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have been touted as candidates who could take down President Barack Obama. In the words of…
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The Root Interview: Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def on 'Free Man of Color'
Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def first performed together in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog, then followed that success with the film Cadillac Records, in 2008. Now they’re together again in playwright John Guare’s A Free Man of Color, which opened Thursday at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. It runs…
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Waiting While Black?
On Oct. 30, when thousands were gathered in Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Dori Maynard faced a moment of insanity. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, was thrown out of a Hampton Inn in the nation’s capital for reasons that are still unexplained. In a recent…
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NPR Confronts Fallout From Williams Affair
NPR’s board of directors has approved hiring a law firm to review the network’s handling of the termination of Juan Williams’ contract, and the network has taken steps to address concerns raised by journalists of color. NPR has hired a second African American on-air reporter, Alex P. Kellogg of the Wall Street Journal, plans to make up for…
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Newspapers' Last Black Sports Editor Leaving
Milwaukee’s Garry D. Howard to Lead Sporting News Garry D. Howard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the last remaining African American editing the sports section of a mainstream daily newspaper, is leaving in December to become editor-in-chief of the weekly Sporting News. “We thank him for his dedication, enthusiasm and passion for exceptional journalism,” Martin…