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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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Occupy DC Expands to Black Churches
Written by Fahima Haque African-American clergy and civil rights leaders will announce their decision to join the Occupy movement, starting a subproject called “Occupy the Dream” on Wednesday. As Occupy D.C. flourishes, more participants join the cause. Jamal Bryant and Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. will join the clergy in their efforts with the “Occupy the…
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Meet Brandon E. Turner, Rhodes Scholar
African Americans dismayed by the paucity of their own chosen for the prestigious Rhodes scholarships each year were not encouraged when most of the class of 2012 was announced in November. Only one African American — Brandon E. Turner, a senior biophysics major at Wake Forest University — gained entry to the select circle whose…
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Ice Cube Confirms New 'Friday' Film
TMZ is reporting that rapper-filmmaker O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson is bringing his Friday (1995) film franchise back to the big screen. Jackson confirmed on Friday that the entire original cast, including Chris Tucker, will be in his latest installment. Friday is a film classic that follows the comedic life and times of Craig (Ice Cube)…
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Chris Rock Gets Real About Black Film
In the fourth episode of his new WNYC interview podcast, Here’s the Thing, Alec Baldwin went backstage with Chris Rock after a matinee of The Mother F**ker With the Hat, Rock’s theater debut. Their discussion covers the comedian’s experiences onstage, on film and in the world of standup comedy. In his characteristically blunt and funny…
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Bronx Principal Under Fire for Facebook Picture
A Bronx, N.Y., high school principal has come under intense scrutiny after an image of her dancing with a topless man and covered in a dark liquid surfaced from her Facebook page, the Huffington Post reports. The photo showed Sharron Smalls, of New York’s Jane Addams High School, next to a topless man as he…
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Global Warming? Minorities Say Yes
James Ragland will be reassigned to reporting in neighboring Collin County, Texas, while his arrest on a domestic assault charge is adjudicated, Morning News Editor Bob Mong told Journal-isms on Friday. “There’s no way he can continue his column where he isn’t facing some inevitable conflict,” Mong said. “He writes about the criminal justice system,…
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Big Cain Announcement Planned for Tomorrow
Herman Cain to make announcement Saturday: GOP presidential contender Herman Cain said in South Carolina today that he’ll make an announcement tomorrow about the future of his candidacy. Although he has dropped 15 percentage points recently amid accusations of sexual harassment and an affair, he wouldn’t say yet whether he plans to abandon the campaign.…
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Ugandan, Gay and Brave
Frank Mugisha was only a teenager when he came out as gay to his family and classmates in Uganda, a country where that admission didn’t just subject him to possible bullying; it put his life at risk. Uganda is one of more than 70 countries worldwide that criminalize consensual gay conduct, and Mugisha says that…