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First Kanye, Now the Chinese: Kimmel Show in Hot Water Again
“ABC is apologizing for a segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt,” the Associated Press reported on Monday. “The boy’s unscripted comment (‘Kill everyone in China,’ he suggested) came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking…
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Is Grambling State's Administration to Blame?
Mark F. Gray writes in a piece at the Shadow League that heads should roll at the Louisiana university’s highest levels because of failures that culminated in Saturday’s forfeited football game against Jackson State. Traditionally, Grambling has been to HBCU football what Notre Dame is to major college football. They were nationally prominent and a…
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Latinos Follow Blacks, Leave Diversity Group
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted Tuesday to leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, following a similar departure two years ago of the National Association of Black Journalists. The vote was 13 to 2 with three board members absent, President Hugo Balta told Journal-isms. Voting no were Nathan Olivares-Gilles and Erin Ailworth. Absent…
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Cory Booker's Fight to End Homophobia
(The Root) — Making good on a promise, Sen.-elect Cory Booker began officiating the marriages of same-sex couples in New Jersey just after midnight this morning — as they first became legally possible, thanks to a court ruling. Later this morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that although he continues to oppose same-sex marriage,…
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Skip Gates for President — of Howard U
(The Root) — The “Best Colleges” rankings from US News & World Report are usually an opportunity for many colleges and universities to go into PR overdrive to attract the best and brightest to their campuses. For other schools, it’s an opportunity to take stock of their aspirational goals. For Howard University, the school’s decline…
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Obamacare Critic Ben Carson Insults Slaves
(The Root) — If William F. Buckley Jr.’s definition of a conservative was someone who “stands athwart history yelling, ‘Stop’,” maybe Dr. Ben Carson’s idea of conservatism is standing athwart the present saying “slavery” as many times as he can. And if so, it’s a good way to grab headlines for himself. But it’s also…
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Coalition for Diversity in Journalism May Lose Hispanic Members
Leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists recommended Monday that the association leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, an action that would leave the onetime Unity: Journalists of Color with two of the original four journalist-of-color associations and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. In a message to members posted on the…
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How White Rage Led to the Federal Shutdown
A “small group of congressman who represent a lily-white, neo-Confederate nation” have caused the government shutdown, writes Andrew O’Hehir at Salon magazine. Their frustration can be attributed to a “white rage and white derangement” about America’s changing racial landscape. Statistics and recent electoral history paint a deceptive picture of an increasingly diverse society that mostly…
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Racism Still Pushing Some Over the Edge?
Do Racial Issues Still Push Some Over the Edge? Black Woman’s Chase, Slaying Renews Interest in Theory The suspect slain after a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol Thursday wasn’t identified by race, unlike the Washington Navy Yard killer who left 12 others dead less than three weeks earlier. Miriam Carey wasn’t…
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The Affordable Care Act vs. Obamacare
The Associated Press and NPR have decided to cut back on use of the term “Obamacare,” with NPR describing the word as seeming “to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular.” Stuart Seidel, NPR’s managing editor for standards and practice, issued his style ruling Tuesday after this…