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14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Becomes Youngest Person to Graduate From Texas Christian University
On Saturday, some 2,000 students received their undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degrees from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. during three ceremonies at Texas Christian University. Carson Huey-You was one of them, officially becoming the youngest person to ever receive a bachelor’s degree at the school as he walked across the stage at age 14. But…
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Praise for Lester Holt, the ‘Rude Negro’
‘The Media-Political Complex Bowed Down’ Trump Suggests Ending Daily Briefings Trump Voting Panel to Push ‘Myth of Fraud’ Readers Imagine Successors to Confederates ‘Cultural Anxiety’ Drove Many to Trump Too Many U.S. Moms Dying in Childbirth NABJ Names Four More Award Winners Honoring Mom Amid ‘Incarceration Epidemic’ Short Takes “Lester Holt conquered the news on…
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Trump Tells Lester Holt He Asked Comey if He Was Under Investigation
‘I Was Going to Fire Regardless of Recommendation’ Two Latinas Added to Fox News Lawsuit ASNE Leader: Scant Diversity Progress ‘Palpable’ Editor & Publisher Explains Pale List of Achievers ‘Maverick’ Black Site Boasts ‘Superstar Team’ Parties Disagree on Role of News Media Puerto Rico, Colonial Relationship Both Bankrupt BET Leaving D.C. for N.Y. After 37…
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Money Isn't Everything … Unless You Don't Have It, And Then Yeah, It's Everything
In February of 2012, a month after I began working for EBONY.com, they asked if I wanted to go to Milwaukee to witness and write on the unveiling of a Black bikers exhibit at the Harley-Davidson museum. Although I had zero interest in motorcycles, I accepted. It was an all expense paid trip to a…
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Cinco De Mayo Is The Super Bowl Of Cultural Appropriation
“It’s that time of the year again.” (In my Jay Pharoah voice) The biggest celebration of cultural appropriation is about to go down. Unless of course you had an early start like Baylor University’s chapter of Kappa Sigma, which threw a “Mexican-Themed” party this past weekend. “Cinco de Drinko” was the kickoff event for what…
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Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America
Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…
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Ugly Second-Guessing After ESPN Layoffs
Reporters Pink-Slipped While Pundits Remain Providence Journal Newsroom Fades to White Trump’s Win Another Reason for Racial Diversity K.C. Star Backs Idea of White Privilege Conference White House Press Sees Attacks Only as Distraction FCC Chair Revives Battle Over Net Neutrality The Hurdles in Trying to Diversify Coverage Union Willing to Represent Ebony Freelancers Fox…
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7 Black Fox Employees to Join Bias Suit, Alleging ‘Arm Wrestling for Whites’ Amusement’
Ebony Said to Owe Writers Thousands French Rivals Hold Opposing Views on Colonialism National Enquirer Readers Say He’s a ‘Winning Prez’ Good Way to Reach Trump: Go on Cable News ESPN to Cut More Than 40 ‘Talent,’ Sources Say 5 Documentaries Planned for L.A. Riot Anniversary DNA Test Results Surprise Student, Columnist Reporter Covering Boko…
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Lessons From the Fall of Bill O’Reilly
Woman Called ‘Hot Chocolate’ Identifies Herself Cecilia Alvear, Former NAHJ President, Dies at 77 White Men ‘Overwhelming’ on Cable Morning Shows TV One Expanding ‘NewsOne Now’ to Two Hours FCC Vote Leads to More Media Consolidation NPR Reports Scant Progress on Diversity Figures 6 ‘Rhoden Fellows’ Named at the Undefeated Census Tests More Hispanic-Friendly Questions…